Edit ``CLiki''

CLiki is a free collaborative hypertext authoring program, written in 
Common Lisp. Modelled on *(Wiki), it's free software using the _(MIT license). See the end of this page for details on how to download the CLiki software. _(CLiki) uses the _(Araneida) web server, which is portable; however, CLiki itself has only been tested on _(SBCL) Lisp.

CLiki 0.4.1 was released 30-Nov-2003: now works with latest version of Araneida and SBCL

An article about CLiki, “CLiki Here”, appeared in Linux User magazine in the summer of 2003.

Cliki was presented at the *(International Lisp Conference 2002): slides and
the paper can be downloaded from <a href="http://ww.telent.net/ilc-slides/">here</a>

<h3>Content creation</h3>

If you can edit HTML, you can create CLiki pages. Heck, if you can
edit <i>text</i> you stand a fair chance. Before you plunging in, read and absorb the _(CLiki Content) and _(CLiki Style)
guidelines, and the _(Text Formatting) rules. You may want to play in
the _(CLiki Sandbox) to get the hang of it before venturing out on the
road.

Before contributing text to CLiki, please take a moment to familiarise yourself with the _(Privacy Statement)

If you dislike editing text in a stupid textarea window in your web
browser, you're not alone. Fortunately, <a
href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiRemote">wiki-remote.el</a>
now works with CLiki. It is an _(Emacs) extension which first
retrieves a page from the CLiki for you, and then, when you're done
editing, uploads it to the server.

<H3>CLiki world view</h3>

There are two basic models for *(Web) information repositories: the
directory (classic example: Yahoo) and the stew with a search
interface (google). Hierarchies are for browsers - people who don't
already know what they're looking for, or who need to be convinced
that the repository contains any useful information about what they're
looking for. Stews are for searchers - people who know what they want
and who think we have it.

The world is more of a Whole Sort Of General Mishmash than a
hierarchy, however, so we don't <I>keep</i> stuff in a hierarchy, we keep
it in a stew: arbitrary hierarchies composed of document searches can
be layered on top of it for a given purpose.

So, the content of a document defines where and whether it appears in
a given hierarchy.  See _(Text Formatting) to find out how to do that.

<h3>Downloading</h3>

There is a fallback project for <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/cliki">CLIKI on common-lisp.net</a>.

:(package "cliki.tar.gz")

<p>
You can also get CLiki from darcs with
<pre>darcs get http://verisons.telent.net/cliki
</pre>

Note that you may also want to check out _(araneida).

<h3>Bugs/Feedback</h3>

Bug reports should be added to _(CLiki Bugs).  Please don't scatter them around other pages on the site; it's unlikely that they'll get noticed

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