# WikiEngine: Future plans **URL:** \ **Category:** Engines\ **Created:** [January 10, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wikiengine-future-plans/52094 "2006-01-10T22:08:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/masschel)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wikiengine-future-plans/52094/1 "2006-01-10T22:08:18Z")
Hello, I have been struggling with what wiki to continue, either Instiki, I2, or WikiEngine. Instiki is quite quiet for the moment, and I don’t see much progress (didnt check the svn trunk lately though). I2 is VERY scarce in its documentation, and i know this is mainly due to the purpose of it: only the rails site. So I end up with WikiEngine. Which is fine, because I like the concept of engines, being reusable in several rails application. At least, I will adapt it to my needs, and contribute if interested. But what is the plan for the WikiEngine? Remain ‘just’ a proof of concept? Or are there plans to extend it? Is there much interest in it anyway? Bart. ---
**Author:** ![masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/masschel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wikiengine-future-plans/52094/2 "2006-01-13T10:14:08Z")
Hi, I would bevery interested in contributing. I also think that things like wiki or blog should be available in form of engines. Mauro ---
**Author:** ![masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/masschel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wikiengine-future-plans/52094/3 "2006-01-13T10:51:17Z")
Anyone is more than welcome to check-out _any_ of the engines and submit patches… and of course you can create your own engines in your own public repositories too - if the login/user/wiki engines don’t do exactly what you want, don’t hestitate to write replacements - so long as they are clearly documented, more choice is a better thing. - james ---
**Author:** ![masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/masschel)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wikiengine-future-plans/52094/4 "2006-01-14T10:18:37Z")
Hi Bart ;-), > So what I have done so far is […] > > 1. Tried the WikiEngine as it comes from the site > Didn’t got it to work, the migration failed all the time Same for me. I posted about it on Rails Engine Development. > 1. Grabbed latest i2 (version 2702) > Managed to get it up and running quite easily Great! I did have a show stopper there. I’ll try again and ask you more details. > 1. Created an engine out of i2 > This still works smoothly. OK, so you did it by “extraction”. Excellent! wiki is pretty big, so this is a great result. > Next steps are making it a bit more monkey proof, and give it a nicer, > more usuable layout. > When it becomes more or less stable (read: I create > a small how to and it works elsewhere), we can make it public somewhere, > and start updating the engine. If you like, I can offer you a SVN repository right now. We could share it at least until the “monkey proof” version is reached. In this way we avoid duplication of effort. In another post of mine (Rails Engines development \> Namespace Issues) you can find some ideas I would like to discuss with you: they could be applied to niki. Ciao, Mauro ---
**Author:** ![masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@masschel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/masschel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wikiengine-future-plans/52094/5 "2006-01-13T21:32:22Z")
Mauro: nice to see you again, on another place ;-). So what I have done so far is (very summarized, dont have so much time now): 1. Tried the WikiEngine as it comes from the site Didn’t got it to work, the migration failed all the time 2. Grabbed latest i2 (version 2702) Managed to get it up and running quite easily 3. Created an engine out of i2 This still works smoothly. Next steps are making it a bit more monkey proof, and give it a nicer, more usuable layout. When it becomes more or less stable (read: I create a small how to and it works elsewhere), we can make it public somewhere, and start updating the engine. Oh, by the way, I called the wiki niki. Cute eh 😉 Bart