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2 W I K K E D
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3 ===========
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5 Wikked is a wiki engine entirely managed with text files stored in a revision
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6 control system like Mercurial or Git.
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8 It's in early alpha, and will probably not work at all except on my machine. If
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9 you still want to try it, great! Please note that:
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11 * On Mercurial is supported at the moment. Git support is planned.
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12 * The command-line interface is temporary and incomplete.
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13 * Lots of incomplete or buggy stuff. Like I said it's alpha!
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14 * Please report any bug on [Github][gh].
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17 ## Installation
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19 Install Wikked the usual way:
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21 pip install wikked
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23 Or, if you're using `easy_install`:
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25 easy_install wikked
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27 You can also install it from the source, which you can find on [BitBucket][bb]
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28 or [Github][gh].
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30 [bb]: https://bitbucket.org/ludovicchabant/wikked
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31 [gh]: https://github.com/ludovicchabant/Wikked
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34 ## Setup
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36 Until Wikked is feature complete with its command-line utility, there's a few
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37 steps needed to setup a new wiki:
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39 1. Create a new Mercurial repository: `hg init mywiki`
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40 2. Go there: `cd mywiki`
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41 3. Create a `Main Page.md` text file, put some text in it.
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42 4. Run `wk reset` to initialize the wiki.
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43 5. Run `wk runserver` and navigate to `localhost:5000`.
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45 If you're using an existing repository instead in step 1, make sure that you add
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46 the `.wiki` folder to your `.hgignore`, and that's where Wikked will cache some
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47 stuff (which you don't want committed or showing up in `hg status`).
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50 ## Wiki Configuration
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52 You can configure your wiki with a `.wikirc` file in the root of your website.
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54 Optionally, you can define a `.wiki/wikirc` file, and any settings in there will
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55 be merged with the `.wikirc`. The difference is that the one at the root is
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56 typically committed to source control, whereas the one in the `.wiki` folder
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57 will only be local to the current repository clone, so that makes it possible to
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58 have local overrides.
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60 The configuration is written in INI-style:
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62 [section]
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63 name = value
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64 other = whatever
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66 [other_section]
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67 name = value
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70 ### `wiki` Section
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72 All the following configuration settings should be in a `[wiki]` section:
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74 * `default_extension` (defaults to `md`): the default extension to use when
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75 creating new pages.
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77 * `main_page` (defaults to `Main Page`): the name of the page to display by
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80 * `templates_dir` (defaults to `Templates`): the directory to search for first
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81 when including pages only by name (as opposed to by fully qualified path).
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84 ### `ignore` Section
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86 This section defines more files or folders for Wikked to ignore (_i.e._ files
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89 Each item in this section should be `name = pattern`, where `name` is irrelevant,
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90 and `pattern` is a glob-like pattern:
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92 [ignore]
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93 venv = venv
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97 This will ignore a `venv` folder or file at the root, or any file or folder
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