I am looking for a simple static wiki (not blog) generator. All I really need is the static generation of markdown files to be presented in a parent child fashion. Does anything like this exist?
The reason being the host system is not powerful enough to run a wiki engine like dokuwiki
It seems that the terminology is causing some confusion. The definition of a wiki is "a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser" [1], which is pretty much the opposite of "static." I assume that what you want is a static site generator that has organisational features that are common in wiki software...
My favourite wiki software is Gitit [2]. It uses Pandoc [3] to convert from an input format (such as Markdown) to HTML. Perhaps you could write a simple script that iterates through all source files and renders the HTML to a destination directory using Pandoc, creating any subdirectories as required. That minimal solution should be very easy to implement; adding organisational markup within the HTML would require some programming.
So if it's a wiki, how do you intend to make a change, given that it's static? I'd be interested to see how your solution to that design issue compares with the solution I came up with over a decade ago.
[+] [-] 1331|13 years ago|reply
My favourite wiki software is Gitit [2]. It uses Pandoc [3] to convert from an input format (such as Markdown) to HTML. Perhaps you could write a simple script that iterates through all source files and renders the HTML to a destination directory using Pandoc, creating any subdirectories as required. That minimal solution should be very easy to implement; adding organisational markup within the HTML would require some programming.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
[2] http://gitit.net/
[3] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
[+] [-] ColinWright|13 years ago|reply
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860457
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4858436
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857473
[+] [-] bobcattr|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ColinWright|13 years ago|reply
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