Introduction
Smeagol is a simple Wiki engine inspired by Gollum. Gollum is a Wiki engine written in Ruby, which uses a number of simple text formats including Markdown, and which uses Git to provide versioning and backup. I needed a new Wiki for a project and thought Gollum would be ideal - but unfortunately it doesn't provide user authentication, which I needed, and it was simpler for me to reimplement the bits I did need in Clojure than to modify Gollum.
So at this stage Smeagol is a Wiki engine written in Clojure which uses Markdown as its text format, which does have user authentication, and which uses Git as its versioning and backup system.
Smeagol is now a fully working small Wiki engine, and meets my own immediate needs.
Read the User Documentation for an introduction to all Smeagol's features.
Smeagol uses the Markdown format as provided by markdown-clj, with the addition that anything enclosed in double square brackets, like this, will be treated as a link into the wiki itself. Read more about Extensible Markup.
Smeagol now has good security and authentication. While the initial password supplied with the system is not encrypted, when it is changed it will be; and passwords for new users added through the user administration pages are encrypted. Read more about Security and authentication.
You can (if you're logged in) upload files, including images, using the Upload a file link on the top menu bar. You can link to an uploaded image, or to other images already available on the web, like this:
You can run Smeagol from the Docker Image; alternatively you can run it from an executable jar file or as a war file in a servlet container. Read how in Deploying Smeagol.
Smeagol is an open source project; you're entitled to make changes yourself. Read more about Developing Smeagol.
Copyright © 2014-2017 Simon Brooke. Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or (at your option) any later version. If you wish to incorporate parts of Smeagol into another open source project which uses a less restrictive license, please contact me; I'm open to dual licensing it.
Smeagol does currently fetch one image from my home site. Read more about Phoning Home, and how to prevent it (if you want to).
If you like what you see here, I am available for work on open source Clojure projects.