AmuseWiki, yet another wiki engine
Vienna, Perl Dancer 2015

About me: Marco Pessotto

PAUSE id

MELMOTHX

IRC

melmothX on Libera Chat and irc.perl.org

E-mail

melmothx@gmail.com

Homepage

http://amusewiki.org

IRC channel

irc://irc.libera.chat/#amusewiki

GitHub

https://github.com/melmothx

Background

Humanities (history and translations)

One man project

Why?

• Long term storage of texts in a clean form

• Publishing texts providing the best possible reading experience.

Yet another wiki engine

• Flat file storage, one text maps to one file with all the metadata

• Git backend

• High-quality output: LaTeX

• PDF imposing for printing

• EPUB for e-reader and mobile

• Bookbuilder to customize the output and create collections

• HTML importer (supporting copy and paste from Word via ckeditor)

• Upcoming: slides and POD importer

Source (Emacs Muse markup)

#title My title
#subtitle Another boring essay
#author John Doe
#topics boring things, another topic
#date October 22, 2015
#notes This was just a test

** Chapter one

And **here** the *text* starts

Text view

Bookbuilder

Imposed PDF

Home-brewed modules (available on CPAN)

Text::Amuse

the parser

EBook::EPUB::Lite

port to Moo of EBook::EPUB

Text::Amuse::Preprocessor

the cleaner

PDF::Imposition

prepare PDF for printing

Text::Amuse::Compile

glues all together (CLI script provided)

Web Frontend

Framework

Catalyst

Layout

Bootstrap

Multisite

on one instance you can run as many sites you want

Database

DBIx::Class

Search

Xapian

Templating

Template Toolkit

Localization

English, Italian, Croatian, Macedonian, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, German, Spanish.

Users

peer-based.

Git for the win

A daemon takes care of all the git-related operations where concurrency may be a problem.

Cgit for recent changes

Modes

• private

• blog

• moderated wiki

• open wiki

Hey, tests!

[...]
t/zz-finish-tests.t ............ ok
All tests successful.
Files=73, Tests=2555, 646 wallclock secs
 ( 1.00 usr  0.16 sys + 368.93 cusr 17.74 csys = 387.83 CPU)
Result: PASS

Questions?