Wiking

web application development toolkit and a content management system

Maintainer: Tomas Cerha <cerha@brailcom.org>

Index:

Introduction
Wiking CMS in action
Technology
Documentation
Source code
Mailing-lists

Quick links:

GIT Repository

Introduction

Wiking is a toolkit for web application development in Python. Wiking CMS is a content management system written using the Wiking toolkit and distributed along with it. It allows the user to manage a web-site using a web browser.

Key Wiking CMS features:

The system is carefully designed to be accessible for website visitors as well as content creators.
Support for internationalization and multilingual content is built-in. Multiple language variants of the content can be managed seamlessly.
Content is created using a generalized and simple to learn structured text format.
Page attachments (external files such as images, documents, recordings or videos) may be embedded in page content.
Complete user registration process and user management subsystem supports e-mail registration confirmation, automatic notifications, password reminders, safe password storage and access rights management.
Built-in modules for discussions, site news and planner/calendar with RSS support are also part of the default installation.
The user may choose from a set of predefined styles and color themes or directly customize them.
Wiking API allows development of simple Wiking CMS extensions embeddable in page content or complete stand-alone web applications.
The output conforms to W3C and other relevant standards.
All components licensed under GNU GPL.

Existing Wiking CMS applications developed within our other projects:

Wiking BTS – Bug Tracking System (see it at http://bugs.brailcom.org)
Wiking Surveys – Web survey creation and evaluation tool
Wiking Communicator – Audio/video conferencing application using Flash
Wiking LMS – Learning Management System (see it at http://courses.brailcom.org)
Wiking Biblio – Digital library (see it at http://biblio.ktn.cz)

The user interface is currently translated into Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Polish, Slovak and Spanish. Other translations are being added gradually. Please, contact us if you want to contribute.

Wiking CMS in action

Yo may want to check the following sites to see Wiking CMS in real:

Technology

Wiking is written in Python and is based on two other important components:

LCG ... provides content abstraction, internationalization support and html generation.
Pytis ... provides data abstraction, modularization and database access.

I can be also said, that Wiking is a web interface to the Pytis toolkit and Wiking CMS is an application built on top of this toolkit. The actual CMS logic resides completely in modules and the engine itself is just a thin layer. This makes the system easily extensible and well maintainable.

The current implementation runs on Apache web server (over mod_python) and relies on PostgreSQL to store its data. In theory, these components could be replaced, however.

Documentation

Full documentation is available as a part of the project and is distributed together with the source code.

You can browse the HTML version on-line.

Source code

Latest released version is 1.0.0.

The source code is managed using GIT. There are the following options to get the current development version:

Clone the git repository from git://git.freebsoft.org/git/wiking
Use GIT web interface.

Please send patches to project maintainer.

Mailing-lists

There is a public mailing-list wiking@lists.freebsoft.org for this project.

This list is for for Wiking developers, as well as for users. If you want to contribute the development, propose a new feature, get help or just be informed about the latest news, don't hesitate to subscribe. The communication on this list is held in English.

See also the listing of all Free(b)soft mailing lists.