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Wikka vision
Compared to heavier wiki engines, which integrate several built-in functions, WikkaWiki's goal is to keep its core as
small as possible while developing an architecture that supports easy extensibility through plugin modules. Wikka's
backend is based on a MySQL relational database, which makes it fast, reliable and more scalable than wiki engines
based on flat text storage. [5]
The latest version 1.2 was released on September 1, 2009. [6] This release is a major feature release introducing
substantial new functionality. According to Secunia, WikkaWiki does not suffer from any unpatched vulnerability as
of the latest release. [7]
Wikka features
Among the distinctive features of this wiki engine:
• Support for different types of embedded elements:
• images
• Flash
• tabular data
• safe HTML code
• RSS feeds
• i-frames
• mindmaps, through built-in support for FreeMind data
• Advanced access control with user registration, password management, and provision for user profiles, as well as
access control lists on a per-page basis.
• Administration modules to manage pages and users, including tools for bulk operations like user removal or page
reversion.
• Advanced syntax highlighting using GeSHi:
• support for 68 markup/programming languages
• easily customizable output
• line numbering
• clickable markup pointers to official documentation
• on-the-fly downloading of embedded code blocks
• Several page-related features, including full revision control, comments, categories, text searching, page cloning,
advanced referrer management, file uploading/downloading interface, and a GUI page editor.
• W3C compliant XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS.
• Theme support
• CSS-defined printable view.
• Advanced tools for publishing page revisions, including:
• RSS feeds for recent modifications and page revisions (with autodiscovery)
• WikiPing client functionality, allowing page changes to be broadcast and tracked on a remote WikiPing server
• SmartTitle function, generating human- and search-engine-friendly page titles.
• A web-based wizard to install the package and to upgrade from WakkaWiki.
• A large repository of user-contributed plugins.