A lightweight, intuitive, wiki-like knowledge base system that works.

A knowledge base should be a place that is effortless to update and always provides the most relevant information at your fingertips. Unfortunately, the most popular systems out there today are either complicated and force you to learn a new syntax for writing, or easily get bogged down with outdated documentation.

This project's goal is to create a lightweight system that is easy to use and just works in the ways you would want it to.

This is a work in progress, so check back soon.

• Easy & intuitive for everyone -- not just developers.
• Able to create separate searchable content areas (i.e. Engineering, Design, Product).
• Search that works.
• Automatically flag out-of-date content and promote recent or popular content.
• Customizable.

This is a wiki-like system, in that anyone with access should be able to create new documents and edit existing ones. Where this differs is that it does not rely on any wiki markup to write the documentation. Just simple, WYSIWYG tools that let you type as if you were in your favorite word processor.

Plus instead of a flat system of documents, this can have hierarchy and separate isolated areas.

The name comes from a primary goal of being able to create separate content areas, or spaces. For example, your company might have the following spaces: Engineering, Design, Product, HR. Under each space you can have full hierarchies of documents, organized any way you like. Then users can search under specific space for the content they need.

This is built as a Django site and should be able to be run directly (if you have django and mysql installed). The end goal is to have the functionality extracted into a python library that can be included in any existing django site.

Install Vagrant, and then run these steps:

vagrant up

vagrant ssh

runserver

Now open your browser to: http://localhost:8000/

NOTE If you get an error about port 8000 already being used, change the port config value in vagrant_config.rb to something that is free.