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diff --git a/doc/competition.mdwn b/doc/competition.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2c782ea92 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/competition.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +When I started ikiwiki in 2006, there were no other existing systems that +filled quite the niche of generating a static html wiki out of markdown +files stored in a [[VCS|rcs]]. My +[first blog about ikiwiki](http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/seeking_wiki/) +looked at some projects that were semi-close, and found them wanting. + +My hope was that besides being useful to all its [[users|ikiwikiusers]], +ikiwiki would help spread its underlying concepts. Let a thousand flowers +bloom! These are some that have sprung up since. --[[Joey]] + +* [Gitit](http://gitit.johnmacfarlane.net/) is a wiki backed by a git (or + darcs) filestore. No static rendering here; pages are generated on the fly. + It's written in Haskell and uses the amazing PanDoc to generate html + from markdown or many other formats. + +* [Markdoc](http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/post/246800035) statically builds + a wiki from markdown source (which can be in a VCS, if you check it in). + It includes a built-in webserver to ease serving the generated static + html. |