Kwiki is wiki software written in Perl by Brian Ingerson, and extended by many others. It was designed to be easy to install, maintain, and extend.

The most recent version of the software is built upon the Spoon (Perl module) architecture and Spiffy (Perl module) model of object orientation. It was preceded by the CGI::Kwiki module.

= Features =

Each feature is implemented as a capabilities.

= Criticism =

Some Kwiki users criticize it for being too elegant a programming environment, hinting at Kwiki s dependence on the as-yet nonstandard Spiffy object orientation model. In general, although the Kwiki source code is much shorter than many other wiki implementations, for some it is more difficult to interpret because of its use of nonstandard Perl idioms introduced by Spiffy. In addition, since the Kwiki developers regard comments as necessary only for those who cannot read or write code, the Kwiki source is more intimidating to some [http://www.kwiki.org/CommentsAreForPeopleWhoCannotWriteCode] [http://www.kwiki.org/CommentsAreForPeopleWhoCantReadCode].

Kwiki is also quite slow. Though faster under Apache 2 and/or mod_perl, it is not developed for these environments.

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