markdown-wiki or mdwiki is a basic wiki.

Features:

• Documents are written in markdown.
• All documents are stored on the file system, you can edit them through the web interface, or directly on the file system with your editor of choice.
• Versions are tracked with a VCS; currently Mercurial and Git are supported.
• It has a simple interface, no excessively ‘hip’ JS. It’s perfectly usable in lynx.
• Lighter than DokuWiki!

Installation

• Install dependencies with bundler: bundle install.

• You can optionally configure some settings in config.rb.

• You will need to initialize a user file and a VCS repository in data/; running ./install.rb is the easiest way to initialize a repo; you can add users with ./adduser.rb.

• Start it with: ./mdwiki.rb, or with a port number: ./mdwiki.rb -p 4568.

Markdown flavour

See the Kramdown docs. You can configure this in config.rb with MARKDOWN_FLAVOUR.

Paths ending with @ will get redirected to .markdown; e.g. [link](/other_page@) is the same as [link](/other_page.markdown) this saves some typing for wiki links.
This is not a markdown extension, but just a HTTP redirect.

Editing documents on the file system

• Spaces are stored as an underscore (_).
• Files must end with .markdown or .md to be editable; all other files are treated as a data file.
• You can use any pathname, but paths cannot begin with special: (case insensitive) or end with a @.

Known issues

• The ‘preview’ functionality is imperfect, since Kramdown & the PageDown markdown flavours differ. In fact, it’s so imperfect that I disabled it for now...