wilfred/metawiki repository overview

⁠Metawiki

Demo site: http://metawiki-demo.wilfred.me.uk/⁠

This is a proof of concept self-hosting metawiki. It has basic self-editing functionality but no concept of users or history yet.

The backend is a simple node.js application with a JSON REST API. The API design is based on GoCardless's API design guidelines⁠. The frontend is a single page app.

⁠License

Metawiki code is under the AGPLv3 license.

Ouroboros image is under CC-NC-ND license⁠.

Icons are from Icons8 which is CC-BY-ND⁠.

⁠Running the server

# Install the dependencies.
$ npm install -g yarn
$ yarn

# Start a database for the backend.
$ sudo systemctl start mongodb
# if mongo didn't shut down cleanly:
$ sudo -u mongodb bash -c "mongod --repair --dbpath /var/lib/mongodb"

# Populate the database and start the server.
$ yarn run load-db
$ yarn run start

⁠Tests

We have a handful of backend tests. You will need to have a mongodb instance running.

$ export PATH=$PATH:node_modules/.bin
$ npm test