MonkeyWiki: Is Monkey Wiki For Me

If you think the answer to this is 'yes', then please go to the Download It page and help yourself - and good luck!

However, it is quite possible it is not the right tool for you. There are hundreds of wiki-engines out there, and many of them are far more powerful and bristling with features than Monkey Wiki will ever be. I wrote it to fulfil a specific requirement, and the priorities and omissions I have made are deliberate.

Here are some of the cirumstances in which you would not want Monkey Wiki:

If you envisage your wiki becoming very large (thousands of pages)
If you require versioned pages available to all users
If you require page locking for edits (important if it is a busy wiki)
If you want very rich formatting features - e.g. tables, maths functions, colours, Free Links etc
If you want built-in access control (though you could easily roll your own in conjunction with Monkey Wiki)
If you want to extend the wiki software but do not use Python

The sort of situation in which it would be suitable might run something like this:

You want maximum control over the way the wiki looks - not only with a site-wide boiler-plate, but down to individual pages and actions.
You want a reasonably well-featured wiki (Site Search, Site Map, Backsearch, Rename etc) but with a slim enough feature-set not to frighten the horses.
You want the wiki markup itself to be simple - emphasising content rather than frills - so that even non-technical users find it easy.
You want a wiki-engine to play with and modify - it is written in Python and should be quite easy to understand (though I haven't got around to much code commenting yet)
You need to install your wiki on a rented virtual server, and have restricted rights on that computer.
You envisage the wiki being relatively small and quiet (though I run one with well over 1000 pages with no trouble).
You want all backup pages sent to you as edits are made. (Of course these could be sent to a mailing list of fellow maintainers).