I want wiki similar to Github Wiki but Github Wiki is repository specific and can't be customized to remove Github navigation controls.
I would like a hosted wiki without any ads and should be easy to style/customize.
I am open to using Rails based simple wiki solution with good set of wiki features.
I think Branchabe, the hosted version of Ikiwiki is probably the best wiki engine in the vein of the github wiki. This is a personal preference issue though and I don't know that there's an objectively right answer here.
MediaWiki is a great open-source Wiki that you could use for this, as well as just about any other Wiki solution.
Wikispaces seems pretty decent.
It has a free option and its layout is customizable (in the paid version). I have to say though, like most wikis, it doesn't have the best user interface (it seems better than most though).
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Does anyone have experience in this topic? Is it fully incompatible or might it be possible to customize certain parts of the app to make it work.
multi-tenancy is not yet fully supported by Wagtail.
Although, as mentioned here in docs, there are some features that are supported.
You may find this blog helpful. Also here is a repository that implements basic features of multi tenancy with django and wagtail and you can play around with it.
Here are some other CMS (build on top of Django) you can try.
I think as long as there are no raw sql queries in wagtail's source code we are good to use django-tenents, the layer that django-tenets is working on is on top of django orm it self.
see wagtail-tenents
I have to create web application similar to twitter with a few tweaks using django. I am clueless if I have to use a CMS for this or any other existing django-application. Working from ground up is quite tedious to be honest. Can anyone recommend me which CMS( or anything else) I should attempt trying?
There is a project called trillr1. According to its page:
"Trillr is a Twitter-like microblogging service enhanced with user directory and group discussion features. " that's maybe what you want.
https://contributions.coremedia.com/trillr1
I guess, the closest you can come with an out-of-the-box software to imitate Twitter is Status.net, the software, that powers identi.ca. However, this is a PHP application.
I'm not aware of something similar in the Django world.
Does anyone know if there is a help authoring tool out there that can produce help documentation for a software product that looks like a wiki? We are currently using the Confluence wiki engine, which is absolutely brilliant and we were wondering if there is anything like that but without the need for an Apache server. Something stand-alone that can give our users the help documentation they need. We have used help authoring tools and they all seem so clunky compared to a wiki.
Use Wiki on a Stick.
Its a single .html file written in Javascript/html and saves the changes onto itself.
You don't even need Apache. Awesome tool!
How about Juli? It generates static HTML so you can browse documents by browser only.
It is used for:
Juli documentation itself.
Edgar project documentation (another my OSS project).
My personal wiki/blog. I'll show later since new users can only post two links(stackoverflow limitation)
I want to do a django bbs forum, what I was looking for an open-source or use pinax do? ? Please give a reason, thank you
Pinax could work for your needs. It's open source, built on Django, and has a lot of social media features. However, if you just need a forum I recommend looking at:
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison
and selecting what suits your needs best. I don't know what your exact needs are, because you haven't provided any details on what you need. I recommend reading about Pinax, and the other forum software at the link provided and seeing what suits your needs. I can't provide a reason to use one over the other though, due to your vague description of needs.
I want my own hosted Wiki so its fully under my control, but would like something as advanced as Wikia rather than the plain, feature-lacking Wikipedia style MediaWiki.
What software does Wikia use and can I have that for my own hosted Wiki? Is it just upgraded/added-on MediaWiki.
You can find Wikia's customizations and extensions to MediaWiki at their dev wiki.
They keep most of their tweaked code in a publicly-accessible SVN server, linked there.
AFAIK, Wikia uses a modified version of the standard Mediawiki distribution that they've been augmenting over the years.
Their business model is to host Wikis (and generate ad revenue) but also to attract users with features not available in standard MediaWiki. I don't think they're offering the software for free, and I doubt that they're selling it at the moment.
Wikia uses the latest version of the MediaWiki software (MediaWiki 1.13.4), but with many of the extensions. The advanced features you see are their hard work at adding a "skin" (called Monaco) of css and javascript over the top. If you ask politely, they will give you a copy.
Their source code is in a public GitHub repository.
If you want to download it and use it on your own go to the latest "release-*" branch.
https://github.com/Wikia/app