Amusewiki is a free and open-source wiki engine that also can be used as authoring, archiving and publishing platform.
Amusewiki is also an amazing EPUB editor, viewer and authoring tool.
Unlike many other wiki engines, Amusewiki uses Emacs Muse Markup instead of Wiki syntax, or Markdown.
It comes with a large ecosystem that contain packages that extend its features and options.
Features
- high-quality output (EPUB and PDF with LaTeX quality).
- Flat-file and Git backend for long-term archiving.
- Comes with a built-in bookbuilder
- OPDS server for mobile users to deliver the texts straight into the reading apps
- can run on PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB or SQLite
- localized for: Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian/Serbian, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
- User-friendly markup borrowed from Emacs Muse
- Importing of HTML documents preserving most of the logical markup
- Wide range of output formats, including high-quality PDF (via LaTeX) and EPUB
- Automatic generation of PDF for printing, including imposition and crop marks
- Collection creation and PDF reformatting, with plenty of layout options
- Production of slides
- Texts are stored under revision control with Git
- Offline editing via Git
- Fast and accurate full-text search (with many available options)
- Multisite engine: on one instance you can run as many sites you want
- Embedded OPDS server
- Mail notifications
- RSS feed
- Localization via gettext (depending on the language, the coverage varies from complete to zero, but it's easy to add).
- Multilanguage on the same site is supported
- Syntax highlight via highlight.js
- Automatic db upgrades
- Packaged for debian with batteries included
License
- This software is copyright (c) 2016-2017 by Marco Pessotto.
- This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. - The GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
later version, or the "Artistic License".
Resources
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