TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is a hybrid wiki/blog style self-contained CMS.

It is wiki-like in some ways

• Wiki markup (own markup, not mediawiki format)
• massive interlinking is encouraged and made easy
• Pages aren't expicately chronological (though they may be made so by use of date-as-title

It is blog-like in some ways

• Pages are presented in multiple-entries displayed on a page

It is unique in some ways

• The blog view is dynamic, as individual entries (tiddlers) can be displayed and removed again, using ajaxy goodness

Flaws

• It is approx 350K in size, when EMPTY. Any pages increase the size, and backups are accomplished by saving the ENTIRE FILE. This makes it quickly cumbersome for space (esp with auto-backup turned on, which is only logical IMHO), but also cumbersome to view history of an individual tiddler.
• There is no server-side mode, though there are plugins to assist in this

To fix

Tiddlers saved independantly to the core code. Loaded as requested.

This makes it more server-friendly, as the 'loading' can be from filesystem - for on-a-stick variety, or from a server, AJAX style, for server variety

This also makes backups more space friendly, revision history much more possible.

The backend can also be front-end agnostic. For on-a-stick style, flat files makes most sense. On a server, the (to be written, server backend code) can translate to flat files, or DB files, or sql, etc, as it sees fit.

Links

• wikipedia:Tiddlywiki
• pytw - Serverside Tiddlywiki fork with python backend, from which I draw much inspiration