Free Wiki

Every now and then something exciting enough happens here at Conscious Manifestations to announce it on all our sites. This is one of those occasions.

Today I made a few small tweaks for better navigation. The site map link is now available on the top right, where it should be!

The rest is just little enhancements such as block placement and sorting.

Coming soon are the promised updates to the site software, Drupal, as well as a host of new softwares, long overdue.

Also - with the new update will be a brand new theme for the site, since it looks a little tired at this point. I have so many projects going on at Conscious Manifestations (such as the newly release SynthWise and Free Parkour site) that it sometimes takes me a while to get back to updates and that sort of thing.

Soon I will be getting some help, so that will be very handy!

Thanks for your continued support.

It has been a while since I have updated this site. I have been quite busy with the flow of life.

I am getting back into the swing of things with Conscious Manifestations, and Free Wiki is at the top of the priority list.

What does this mean?

Well...

1) Free Wiki gets a much-needed and overdue upgrade to Drupal 4.7.
2) More softwares get added to the line-up.
3) The information architecture of the site gets a serious upgrade.
4) Tags and tag clouds are implemented.

And so much more.

All of this... coming soon. :)

Ciao for now.

Free Wiki

I just added Google site search to enable a powerful search of all the content on this site.

There is also a block for searching now as well.

In addition, outside of the search stuff, I added an Amazon books block that brings up a single book at a time that regards wikis. Gotta make those ends meet. ;) Indeed, people may be interested in that they see.

Today I made some major changes to the navigation, enabling people to quickly sort the wikis using the top navigation menu.

I have also spent a lot of time testing out Drupal 4.7 beta 5. Once the 4.7 stable release is out, I am going to upgrade to this version as it has a lot of very nice features like tagging posts rather than categorizing them.

This will be a major change and will create a lot more easy navigation and will also allow me to more easily add a lot more ways to have the information filtered and sorted.

Today I added XWiki to our growing list of Free Wiki Softwares! You can also visit the XWiki Website for more info on this free wiki.

From XWiki Site:

"XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java which supports many popular features of other Wikis like:

* Wiki syntax (uses Radeox engine)
* Content management (view/edit/preview/save)
* Version Control
* Attachments
* Rights Management
* Full-text Search

XWiki also has many advanced features that many other wiki engines lack:

* Document Templates to ease creation of common documents.
* Relational Database storage using Hibernate.
* Design Engine for Meta-Data and Forms.
* In-place (inline) editing of form information in pages.
* Powerful programming API in documents (Velocity or Groovy)
* Search API for more detailed searching in the Meta-Data.
* Plugin System in Java.
* Scalability and Performance using J2EE.
* Complete Design Skin System (templates content as well as CSS) have a look to nice websites powered by XWiki
* RSS output and display of external RSS feeds
* Multi-Lingual capabilities
* XML/RPC Remote API
* Portlet Integration
* Integrated Statistics
* PDF Export
* WYSIWYG HTML Editing"

XWiki Features:

XWiki Features Page

XWiki User Screenshot:

XWiki Edit Page Screenshot:

XWiki Demo Link:

XWiki Demo Pages

XWiki Documentation:

XWiki Docs

XWiki Frequently Asked Questions:

XWiki FAQs

XWiki System Requirements:

XWiki System Requirements

XWiki Download Info:

Download Area for XWiki

XWiki Installation:

XWiki Installation Help Guide

XWiki Guides:

XWiki Developer's Guide
XWiki Administrators Guide
XWiki Users Guide

Helpful Resources on the XWiki Site:

XWiki Homepage
XWiki Blog
XWiki Tutorial
The Best of XWiki (skins and more...)
XWiki Mailing Lists
XWiki Contacts
The XWiki Syntax
List of Wikis Comparable to XWiki

Other XWiki Resources:

XWiki Freshmeat Listing
XWiki Sourceforge Page

XWiki License:

GNU General Public License (GPL)

I added GoWiki to the line-up and took care of a few administrative things regarding AdSense and the like.

I am planning to add SubWiki very soon.

From GoWiki Site:

"GoWiki is the 'engine' underlying Sensei's Library which presents the pages and diagrams based on a pure text version stored in a database.

GoWiki is a collection of [ext] PHP scripts which interface with a [ext] mySQL database, custom made for Sensei's Library.

GoWiki is based on [ext] PhpWiki which can be found at Sourceforge."

Features:

No features page available.

User Screenshot:

Edit Page Screenshot:

Demo Link:

GoWiki Demo

Documentation:

GoWiki Docs

Frequently Asked Questions:

No FAQ's Available

System Requirements:

No system requirements listed. PHP and mySQL are necessary.

Helpful Resources:

GoWiki Homepage

GoWiki :

Download GoWiki

Installation:

No installation instructions available.

License:

GNU General Public License (GPL)

Here is a useful and growing comparison chart of wiki softwares on Wikipedia.

From TiddlyWiki Site:

"Welcome to TiddlyWiki, an experimental MicroContent WikiWikiWeb built by JeremyRuston. It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to any WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick."

Features:

TiddlyWiki has a very interesting way of displaying information which is incredibly cool, but does not leave the linking to of certain parts of the site as easy as more standard sites. This is neither good not bad, just unique and different. Thus, this posting will be unlike the others in that it will simply link to the TiddlyWiki Site where you can find all the info usually linked directly to in a Free Wiki posting.

User Screenshot:

Edit Page Screenshot:

Demo Link:

TiddlyWiki Demo

Documentation:

TiddlyWiki Documentation

Frequently Asked Questions:

TiddlyWiki FAQ's

System Requirements:

TiddlyWiki System Requirements

Helpful Resources:

TiddlyWiki Developer Site
TiddlyWiki User Google Group
TiddlyWiki Developer Google Group

Download:

Download TiddlyWiki

Installation:

TiddlyWiki Installation Instructions

License:

BSD License (GPL)

The TWiki project really caught my attention. It is solid and very pretty as well - nice CSS.

There is lots of documentation and plenty of serious companies out there that use it (not that that means much as such, but you get the point).

Have a look!

From TWiki Site:

"Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise collaboration platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins."

Features:

Partial TWiki Feature List (Scroll half-way down the page.)

User Screenshot:

Edit Page Screenshot:

Demo Link:

TWiki Demo

Documentation:

TWiki Documentation

Frequently Asked Questions:

TWiki FAQs

System Requirements:

TWiki System Requirements

Helpful Resources:

TWiki Developer Site
TWiki User Guide, Reference Manual and Site Tools
TWiki Sourceforge Page
TWiki Freshmeat Listing

Download:

Download TWiki

Installation:

TWiki Installation Instructions

License:

GNU General Public License (GPL)

I added UseMod, a wiki software written in Perl.

Thanks for dropping in. We're glad you're here.

Free Wiki exists to provide new and experienced wiki-interested people with a good resource for existing free software wikis, complete with screenshots, links to pertinent information such as downloads and docs, links for quick customized searches (e.g., to find a wiki written in php using a mysql database and released under a GPL license).

We encourage wiki software developers who are interested in having an account with us to maintain their own wiki software page to contact us. We would be most honored to have you take part in this site.

Also included on this site are feeds from the main Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikispecies.

We have chosen to add Google AdSense text ads to help with the cost of hosting. We hope they are not too much of a bother for you. Indeed, they might actually help some people find exactly what they need.

Enjoy!