About Wixi

Wixi is a multi-platform wiki application for the desktop. It is written in python/wxpython and uses a sqlite database for storing pages. Wixi is using the txt2tags markup, which is also written in python.

The quick reference dialog wil show you the most common used markup functions. Wixi does not provide buttons to generate markup text because the markup is easier and faster to learn than pressing all kind of buttons. Just as txt2tags, wixi stays close to the KISS principle.

Getting Started

By default, Wixi will try to create to following directories in your home directory:

  (1) /MyWiki
  (2) /MyWiki/export
  (3) /MyWiki/images
  (4) /MyWiki/scripts

1. MyWiki

If you have never started wixi before it will ask you to enter a new wiki database name. If you name your wiki database for example "mywiki" ,it will create an sqlite file called mywiki.sl3 in the MyWiki directory.

2. Export

If you select some export formats in the settings dialog, pages will be exported in this directory. It will also copy the needed images. By default the t2t format is selected.

3. Images

In this directory Wixi will store the images used by all your wiki databases. You can copy images by hand or use the image browser wich copies the files automaticly to this folder.

4. Scripts

Users can make custom python scripts to add, modify or generate text. These scripts may be executed before the page is shown in the viewer.

Creating new pages

next: creating a page