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Introduction#

It's common for people to use a wiki and some discipline to replace a more complex application. They can add some plugins to make it easier.

It would be awesome to be able to program extensions of a wiki inside the wiki:

• integrated revision control
• low barrier to entry
• programming on the web

Related notions#

Existing plugin mechanisms#

Confluence plugins#

The Confluence wiki allows for a lot of different plugin types

JSPWiki plugins#

Scott's wikitools#

Scott just started some work on wiki extensions that allow to access the wiki from outside and that make use of templates Wiki Tools

Databases#

Most applications need to store data and often use a database. It's common to store large amounts of data on a wiki with a repetitive text format. This is in effect a primitive type of database that tends to mix data and its presentation. Plugins can be used to allow access to a database from a wiki page (Database and Wiki)

Use cases/Applications#

Elementary use cases#

Text to graphics#

It would be nice to be able to input some parameters and information and obtain a graphical representation. This can be achieved for certain graphical representations with Java JSPWiki plugins (e.g. ImageGen Plugins). With a template engine, SVG and some Javascript, we could probably create new similar plugins from the wiki.