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title: The Wiki
kind: article
categories:
  - about
  - wiki.template
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This page is about this wiki itself.

= Wiki::Article.new_section "What this wiki is"

%p
  This is a template for a wiki, whereas the content of the template is the
  documentation on how to use the template. So it is a self-documenting wiki.

= Wiki::Article.new_subsection "Build with nanoc"

%p
  This site is build with nanoc 4, a static site compiler. I have build this
  wiki template with it because I wanted to be able to version-controll my wiki
  content with git, the stupid content tracker. And I wanted to be able to
  develop a wiki on github.

%p
  With a static site compiler like nanoc, the content gets compiled into static
  html files which can then be put on a webserver. No dynamic content means less
  security issues, less cpu/ram usage on the server and faster delivery of the
  content.

%p
  Contributions can be done via git(hub) and are written in (almost) plain text.
  There is no way yet to write wiki articles in markdown, for example. But this
  very page is written using haml and some utility helpers I wrote for nanoc, so
  it is
  %i
    almost
  plain text.


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