Oddmuse (2001) is a Perl-based Wiki engine, and free framework at the core of Raiazome. Its {a} single-file implementation, {b} flat-file, filesystem-based database, and {c} absence of external, non-stock dependencies make Oddmuse among the simplest (and justly free-est, profitably, of fees) Wiki engine in current development.
Oddmuse is, as it is derived of the like-optimized, Perl-based Wiki engine Usemod, optimized for:
Oddmuse is freely downloadable, fastly installable, and friendly, fine-grainedly configurable. As volunteer ‘evangelism’ for Oddmuse, Raiazome publishes documentation, instructions, and examples for installation of Oddmuse on your own website — or, if you don’t have your own, a nearly free, NearlyFreeSpeech.net- or FreeShell.org-hosted website. See:
Raiazome also developed and presently also publishes several Oddmuse modules, which you are welcome to reuse in your Oddmuse setup. These are:
2008 | autolock | An Oddmuse-specific Perl module for locking wiki pages via regular expression matching on page names. |
2008 | crossbar | An Oddmuse-specific Perl module for adding a site-wide footer, header, or other summary content to all Wiki pages. |
2008 | flashbox | An Oddmuse-specific Perl module for embedding offsite-hosted Flash videos within Wiki pages — particularly, those hosted by Google Video, YouTube, and SlideShare. |
2008 | hibernal | An Oddmuse-specific Perl module for refactoring journal and journal archival code (with, thereby, improved multi-blogging, CSS styling, HTML configuration, and third-party integration). |
2008 | logout | An Oddmuse-specific Perl module for logging out the current Oddmuse user. |
2008 | poetry | An Oddmuse-specific Perl module for embedding whitespace-preserving poetry within Wiki pages. |
Oddmuse is, also, owing to its flat-file distribution of server-side Wiki data onto the filesystem itself (rather than client/server-style mish-mash of external databases), simply backed-up and restored — via, for example, the venerable rsync utility. However, this is not without its own dumb conundrums: namely, that that utility takes over 100 command-line options. Some of these command-line options are ‘safe.’ Some of them, are not. And some do very little at all. (These, also, are probably ‘safe.’)
Raiazome has developed a well-documented, widely-customizable shell script for performing Oddmuse backup, restoration, and mirroring, without need for gluttonous examination and experimentation — often fatal, always trippy — of rsync options, errors, or execution. Developed in the needful coursework of “cron”-managed mirroring of the main Raiazome Wiki to its subsidiary mirror, this script has several years of industrial-strength, strenuous use behind it. See:
Oddmuse is derived from Usemod, the now-antiquated, quiescent, Perl-based Wiki engine on which Wikipedia initially ran — and MeatballWiki and ubiquitous, ceaseless others still run.
Brian Curry, Raiazome‘s principle (…though, perhaps, unprincipled) architect, also actively contributes to Oddmuse — assisting Alex Schröder, Oddmuse‘s principle architect, in its continued maintenance and development.
Other significant authors include: