¶ Geeki Geeki, the Stupid Stupid Wiki Wiki

GeekiGeeki is a minimalistic wiki with a Git backend, a high features/complexity ratio and a clean syntax. Check the EditingTips page for an idea the supported markup.

For all your geeky wiki needs, GeekiGeeki is the stupid choice you can't avoid!

Tags: fast, stupid, !bloated, h4x0r cheapasincheapbeer

¶ Features

S^3: Simple, Small, Stupid
Rich, clean markup syntax, highly compatible with WikiCreole and MoinMoin
Versioned and distributed storage backend based on git
Easy to interface with other storage back-ends through a glue script
Interfaces with GitWeb for history browsing, RSS...
Consistent use of CSS for easy theming
HTML pass-through for powerful formatting
Pluggable macros
Page includes (templates with parameters coming)
Blogging support
Hierarchical namespace with automatic directory listing
Picture gallery (poor man's Flick'r)
Video playback (poor man's You Tube)
User accounts supported through web server's HTTP basic auth
Per-page ACLs
Title and full-text search with full regex power
Easy drop-in installation (no WSGI, mod_python, FCGI...)
Fast!
Small! Codebase is just 800 LOCs!
Derived from PikiWiki, like MoinMoin
OpenSource, FreeSoftware, CheapBeer... pleases anyone
GuruMeditation alerts :-)

¶ License

Geeki Geeki is Gratis Software as in Gratuitous Speech, not Cheap as in Cheap Beer. Consult your lawyer before using to check whether this is compatible with your current brand of beer.

Naa! Geeki Geeki is really distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.0 or later.

¶ Download

¶ Releases

01-May-2009	geekigeeki-4.0.tar.gz
11-Dec-2008	geekigeeki-3.0.tar.gz
23-Sep-2008	geekigeeki-2.0.tar.gz

¶ Source

You can obtain the latest version -- actually any version -- through git:

git clone http://www.codewiz.org/~bernie/git/geekigeeki.git/
git clone git://www.codewiz.org/~bernie/geekigeeki.git/

¶ Revision history

Browse it online with GitWeb: geekigeeki

¶ Individual source files

geekigeeki.py -- The CGI itself
geekigeeki.conf.py -- Sample site config
post_edit_hook.sh -- Some glue to integrate with git
wiki_apache.conf -- Sample conf file for Apache
geekigeeki.css -- The stylesheet used at this site

¶ Installation

The easiest way is:

clone the git repository anywhere you like
edit wiki_apache.conf to adapt it to your system, and move or link it to your Apache configuration directory.
customize the wiki through geekigeeki.conf.py

create a git repository for your wiki:

 mkdir data
 cd data
 git init --shared=group
 chgrp -R apache .

reload Apache

¶ Update procedure

If you cloned the repository as suggested, updating and downgrading is easy:

git pull

to switch to a different version of GeekiGeeki:

git checkout {tree-ish}

where '{tree-ish} could be a tag, a branch name, or a specific commit.

¶ Contributing

Please send your patches! See the GeekiGeekiToDo list for ideas.

Bugfixes and cute hacks welcome. BloatWare will be rejected: this is a minimalistic wiki, damn'it!