# Rails based wiki: is instiki still being developed?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 19, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-based-wiki-is-instiki-still-being-developed/50639 "2005-12-19T14:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-based-wiki-is-instiki-still-being-developed/50639/1 "2005-12-19T14:47:29Z")

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hello,

is the instiki project still being developed? it seems the web site is  
down for a couple of weeks now, and almost no activity is going on on  
the developer mailing list.

on a related note, are you aware of other actively developed rails-based  
wikis?

many thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-based-wiki-is-instiki-still-being-developed/50639/2 "2005-12-19T23:00:47Z")

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Hi Luigi,

> is the instiki project still being developed? it seems the web site is  
> down for a couple of weeks now, and almost no activity is going on on  
> the developer mailing list.
> 
> on a related note, are you aware of other actively developed rails-based wikis?

I2 is a rewrite of Instiki in rails, with the goal is to support  
high-traffic sites lite RoR. There is SQLiki - a wiki generator for  
Rails. Instiki-AR is (was) a rewrite to support database backends in  
Instiki, but I have no idea what it’s current state is.

There are also a number of excellent non-rails wikis, some of whom  
have been around  
for a while. Soks, Ruwiki and hiki come to mind. Take a look at  
[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=wiki](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=wiki).

Personally I write my own wiki software :-). Depemnding of what you  
need the wiki for, take a look at Pimki ([http://pimki.rubyforge.org](http://pimki.rubyforge.org)).  
It used to be based on Instiki, but is now being rewritten as a  
regular rails application, with KirbyBase as the backend.

Cheers,  
Assaph

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**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-based-wiki-is-instiki-still-being-developed/50639/3 "2005-12-21T05:26:11Z")

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Assaph M. wrote:

> > is the instiki project still being developed?
> 
> Instiki-AR is (was) a rewrite to support database backends in  
> Instiki, but I have no idea what it’s current state is.

Hi all,

Instiki-AR was basically hibernating for nearly two months. It will get  
some attention from me during the holidays. Not sure if that will be  
enough to get to the next release, but I am certainly migrating  
[Instiki.org](http://Instiki.org) to run on the ActiveRecord backend.

The site is back up at the time of this writing.

Best regards,  
Alex

P.S. If anyone wants to take over Instiki development, please write me.  
It’s a cool little app, you can learn quite a lot from working on it.