Ikiwiki

ikiwiki is a free and open-source wiki application, designed by Joey Hess. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. ikiwiki is written in Perl, although external plugins can be implemented in any language.

ikiwiki

Developer(s)	Joey Hess et al
Initial release	April 29, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-04-29)
Stable release	3.20250221[1] / 2025-02-21[±]
Repository	source.ikiwiki.branchable.com?p=source.git%3Ba%3Dsummary
Written in	Perl
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Wiki software
License	GPL v2 or later
Website	ikiwiki.info

Unlike conventional wiki software, ikiwiki stores its pages in a standard version control system such as Git, Subversion or others.^[2]

Features

ikiwiki supports several lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, Creole, reStructuredText and Textile.

In the simplest case, it can function as an off-line static web site generator (possibly still allowing different users to submit changes through VCS; this method is sometimes referred to as wiki compiler), but it can use CGI to function as a normal web-interfaced wiki as well.^[3] Login via OpenID is supported.

ikiwiki can be used for maintaining a blog, and includes common blogging functionality such as comments and RSS feeds. The installer includes an option to set up a simple blog at install time.^[4]

ikiwiki is included in various Linux distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu.^[3]

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• Website Meta Language