Wikke

Wikke is a 3 line 206 character Wiki Clone in PHP, JavaScript, and Bash. It was written for a Shortest Wiki Contest by Jim Ley, Sean B. Palmer, and Adam Wendt, with help from Charles Goodier, Adam Bregenzer, and Daniel Biddle.

Wikke uses HTTP PUT to submit posts, which both Mozilla and IE support. The main version of Wikke is for Mozilla, but we've also made available a version for Win32 Internet Explorer, which is actually a little shorter at 199 characters.

Sources:

• Wikke (206 chars)
• Win32 IE version (199 chars)

How to use:

• Type your text in the input box.
• WikiNames are converted automatically to links.
• HTML is allowed.
• Unfocus the input box, e.g. by clicking outside of the input box, to upload; refresh the page, e.g. with Ctrl+F5, to view the updated page.
• Backlinks will be diplayed to the right of the input area for pages which are about to be created.

To install:

• Create a script-writable "wikke" directory.
• Make sure you have a put handler set up. Example: handler.py
• Set "ErrorDocument 404 /wikke/wikke.php" in your .htaccess
• Upload the relevant version of wikke as wikke.php
• Take care to follow the PHP notes below.

The team effort spanned many hours of discussion, and we noticed a number of issues along the way:

• In PHP 4.2.0 and later, register_globals must be turned on.
• Safe mode must be disabled and shell_exec() enabed.
• JavaScript must be enabled in the web browser

The original sources were lost since Adam's box got hacked, but thankfully I was able to retrieve wikke-ie from the Swhack logs and wikke from the #svg logs, and a couple of years later Adam found the PUT handler so all of the code has been recovered.

Etymology: From Webster's (1913): Wikke \Wik"ke\, a. Wicked. [Obs.] —Chaucer.

Feedback

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