Compatibility Matrix:

django-wakawaka

django-wakawaka is a super simple wiki system written in Python using the Django framework.

• Links between Wiki pages are automatically resolved by their CamelCase naming scheme.

• It automatically keeps track of revision changes of a Page, while providing the ability to revert to earlier states.

• It also has a quite comprehensive permission integration, taking care of Django's default create/edit/delete permissions.

• Wakawaka is an application and indented to be placed in an existing project.

Some screenshots from the Example Project:

• WikiIndex Page
• Revision List
• Page History
• Page List

Installation:

1. Put wakawaka to your INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py within your django project.
2. Add (r'^wiki/', include('wakawaka.urls')), to your urls.py.

That's all. Wakawaka has no other dependencies than Django 3.2 or later.

Configuration:

Wakawaka takes care of Django's permission system. Grant your users always a pair of wikipage and revision permissions either what they should do. (Adding, changing or deleting WikiPages)

Optional Settings:

The name of your first wiki page is defined as WikiIndex. You can change this by adding a setting WAKAWAKA_DEFAULT_INDEX to your settings.py. Example:

WAKAWAKA_DEFAULT_INDEX = 'Home'

Words that are written in CamelCase (a pair of one upper letter followed by n lower letters) are automatically treated as internal wiki links. You can change this behaviour by adding a setting WAKAWAKA_SLUG_REGEX to your settings.py. This holds a regular expression of the wiki name format. Default:

WAKAWAKA_SLUG_REGEX = r'((([A-Z]+[a-z]+){2,})(/([A-Z]+[a-z]+){2,})*)'

Attachments:

Wakawaka does not provide the ability to store file attachments to wiki pages. To do so, have a look on the side project django-attachments which provides a unobstrusive way to add attachments to models.

Testing and Development:

The project comes with a test library which can be simply invoked by Tox, which tests the project under all current Python and Django versions:

$ pip install tox
$ tox

To run the testsuite manually in your development environment, install the project using Poetry:

$ poetry install
$ pipenv run pytest

Example Project:

The application comes with a sample project. This gives you a brief overview about the Wiki features, and can help you with the integration of the application into an existing project. It's alo used for the test suite:

$ poetry install
$ poetry run ./manage.py migrate
$ poetry run ./manage.py createsuperuser
$ poetry run ./manage.py runserver

Changelog:

v1.7 (2026-02-07)

• Added support for Python 3.14.
• Added support for Django 5.2.
• Updated ruff config for ruff 0.15.

v1.6 (2024-11-19)

• Added support for Python 3.13.
• Added support for Django 5.1.
• Drop support for Django <= 4.1.
• Drop support for Python 3.8.

v1.5 (2024-07-10):

• Switch from pipenv to a Poetry build system
• The IP Address field is now optional

v1.4 (2023-12-15):

• Added support for Django 5.0.
• Added support for Python 3.12
• Type Annotations

v1.3 (2022-04-30):

• Added support for Django 3.2 to 4.2.
• Added support for Python 3.8 to 3.11.

v1.2 (2020-01-08):

• Dropped support for Python 2.7.
• Added support for Python 3.8.
• Added support for Django 2.2 and 3.0.

v1.1 (2019-01-21):

• Django 2.1 compatibility and and further cleanup.
• Dropped support for Django <v1.11.
• Dropped "authenticated" url patterns which were not functional since a while.

v1.0 (2016-11-26):

• Django 1.10 compatibility and total cleanup.
• Full Python 3 compatibility.
• Removed Pinax Group support.
• Tests.

v0.3: (2009-08-06):

• If a wikipage was not found, the view now raises a proper Http404 instead of a (silent) HttpResponseNotFound. This gives you the ability to display a proper 404 page.
• All templates are now translatable using gettext.

v0.2 (2009-07-22):

• Edit-forms are now replaceable