Welcome to your wiki!

Slim wiki is a fast and slim wiki based on PHP and Markdown.

• Write your pages in (GitHub-flavored) Markdown - no fancy wiki syntax no one can remember, instead pretty text written in a widely used standard.
• Add code snippets with syntax highlighting to your pages. Slim wiki has support for a ton of languages.
• No database required - everything is file-based.
• Beautiful styling.
• Edit your pages with a single click in a great editor - no tiny little text area.
• Instant preview of your changes.
• Slim wiki is open source (MIT license)

Installation

Requirements:

• PHP 5.3+
• Apache Webserver with mod_rewrite enabled.

Installation:

1. Download the latest slim-wiki.zip.
2. Extract the zip and put the contents on your webspace.
3. Create a config.xml (copy and adjust the example).
4. Give write permissions to the server for the directory data (including subdirectories and files).

How to use the wiki

• Just click on the Edit button at the top right corner and start writing.
• If you are not familiar with Markdown, check out the Markdown cheat sheet.
• Your changes are automatically saved as soon as you stop writing for a second. If you see your changes on the right side of the edit view, they will be already saved (with a daily backup) and public. There is no save button you have to press.
• You can add new pages by adding a link to a non-existing page. Then click the link and slim wiki will allow you to create the new page.

Tipps:

• Use the main page as overview and add links to subpages.
• You can add a link to a directory having a index.md.

Notes:

• The extension .md is optional - slim wiki will add it automatically.
• Underscores in directory or file names are shown as spaces in the breadcrumbs. So if you name your page My_new_page.md, it will be shown as My new page.

How to develop slim wiki

Check out the project page on GitHub.

Special thanks

• Slim wiki is inspired by Wikitten. I have used some of their ideas, but technically slim wiki is a complete rewrite.
• Thanks to Daring Fireball for inventing Markdown.
• Thanks to GitHub for hosting this project and for some great enhancements to Markdown.