As I wanted a wiki that just uses plain markdown files as backend, that is easy to use and that is written in python, to enable me to easily hack around, but found nothing, I just wrote this down. I hope that it might help others ,too.

• Markdown Syntax Editing
• Tags
• Regex Search
• Random URLs
• Web Editor
• Pages can also be edited manually, possible uses are:
  • use the cli
  • use your favorite editor
  • sync with dropbox
  • and many more
• Easily themable

• Speed Improvements
  • Code Optimizations
  • Caching
• Wikilinks-Support
• Access protection (for private wikis)

Just clone this repository, cd into it, run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You might need to install some packages such as python-dev and libffi-dev:

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev python-dev

You may create content/ dir in the directory or one will be created automatically upon start.

The configuration file is config.json. Set the SECURITY_KEY to an empty string and a new one will be auto-generated. To enable auth, set "AUTH" to true. To add new users, modify or extend the sample users in the file. Set the password to a plain text string, and it will be hashed using bcrypt (and the config file updated) when the Wiki is restarted. Note: the sample users have passwords of 'password', so change the passwords or remove the users.

To reiterate, to set passwords, specify a plain text password and it will be updated with a bcrypt hash when the Wiki is started or restarted.

If you want your config.json file in your content/ dir, modify the source of app.py, it is specified on line 17 (or thereabouts).

Afterwards just run the app however you want. I personally recommend something like gunicorn (which is included in the requirements.txt):

# Activate your virtualenv, e.g.,
source bin/activate

# Start up gunicorn
gunicorn app:app

Note: by default, gunicorn runs on 127.0.0.1:8000. To customize, use the form:

gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:8000 app:app 

You can install setproctitle with pip to get meaningful process names.

If you just want to try something out or debug something, you can execute the app with python app.py which will run the development server in debug mode. There's a debug flag in the config file as well.

The templates are based on jinja2. I used bootstrap for the design. If you want to change the overall design, you should edit templates/base.html and/or static/bootstrap.css. If you do not like specific parts of the site, it should be fairly easy to find the equivalent template and edit it.

Thank you very much to my two top contributers @walkerh and @traeblain. You two have posted so many issues and especially solved them with so many pull requests, that I sometimes lose track of it! :)