brys

README

brys:

• Cornish for intention, mind, opinion, thought, psyche
• Welsh for speed, haste, urgency

This is a place to work out the creation of a wiki in golang that meets two critical requirements:

• Teaches me a bit more go (and the developer context).
• Results in a wiki I actually like.

A significant portion of my long development career has been associated with creating wikis and wiki-like tools for information management. Modern wikis fail to be good because they are frequently focused on publishing; a dumping ground for stuff that needs to be remembered. That's not where wikis shine. Wikis are at their best when they identify gaps in our mental namespace and help them to be filled. "Our" is an individual or small group. The outcome of an effective wiki is shared language, shared understanding and shared goals.

WikiLinks provide the mechanism for identifying the gaps.

Desired Features

In no particular order.

• densely documented on the wiki way in code, commit and wiki itself
• markdown with WikiWords
• one go process per wiki (but with interwiki links?)
• storage at first in plain text (then in git?)
• one namespace, no nesting
• no tags
• WikiWord autocomplete in editor, but other than that, very little JavaScript
• no built in auth
• RecentChanges
• NeedAttention (stuff that hasn't been edited in a while)
• MissingLinks (the gaps)
• Ambient info
  • page heat
  • backlinks

Things to Maybe do Later

• templated layout and style
• purple
• sessions/identity (for log authorship)

Desired Development

• Test oriented/driven development
• Easy to deploy in multiple ways
• Fast feedback and iteration

License

Chosen the GPL 3 because it most accurately reflects my politics and attitudes with regard to software: If you want to use it, you are a participant in its creation.