smeagol/resources/public/content/Introduction.md

Welcome to Smeagol!

Smeagol is a simple Wiki engine inspired by Gollum. Gollum is a Wiki engine written in Ruby, which uses a number of simple text formats including Markdown, which uses Git to provide versioning and backup. I needed a new Wiki for a project and thought Gollum would be ideal - but unfortunately it doesn't provide user authentication, which I needed, and it was simpler for me to reimplement the bits I did need in Clojure than to modify Gollum.

So at this stage Smeagol is a Wiki engine written in Clojure which uses Markdown as its text format, which does have user authentication, and which will soon use Git as its versioning and backup system.

Markup syntax

Smeagol uses the Markdown format as provided by markdown-clj, with the addition that anything enclosed in double square brackets, like this, will be treated as a link into the wiki.

Security and authentication

Currently security is very weak. There is currently a file called passwd in the resources/public directory, which contains a clojure map of username/plain-text password pairs thus:

{:admin "admin"}

that is to say, the username is a keyword and the corresponding password is a string. Obviously, this is a temporary solution while in development which I will fix later.

Todo

• Git integration! Smeagol doesn't have any inbuilt versioning or backup mechanism; it's intended that Git will be used as that mechanism. But it isn't implemented yet;
• Image (and other media) upload;
• Improved editor. The editor is at present very primitive - right back from the beginnings of the Web. It would be nice to have a rich embedded editor like Hallo or Aloha but I havenven't (yet) had time to integrate them!
• Improved security. Having the passwords in plain text rather than encrypted is just basically poor; having the passwd file in public space is also poor (although I believe it cannot be accessed via HTTP). Essentially, authentication mechanisms should be pluggable, and at present they aren't;
• Mechanism to add users through the user interface;
• Mechanism to change passwords through the user interface;

Editing the framing content

You can edit the _left-bar, the _edit-left-bar, and the _header.