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Amusewiki is a free open-source library-oriented wiki engine and publishing platform for authoring, archiving, and publishing texts with high-quality PDF and EPUB outputs.

🚀 Overview

Amusewiki is a powerful wiki engine designed specifically for libraries and text-heavy projects, serving as an authoring, archiving, and publishing platform. It emphasizes long-term preservation, high-quality printing, and excellent reading experiences across devices.

This project solves the challenge of managing large volumes of textual content like books, articles, and documents in a self-hosted environment. Traditional wikis often lack robust publishing features, but Amusewiki provides Git-based version control, professional PDF/EPUB generation, and full-text search to make it ideal for digital libraries.

It's built for librarians, authors, publishers, and self-hosters who need a simple yet feature-rich tool for text collections. Developed by Marco Pessotto (melmothx) to offer a Perl-based alternative focused on quality output and simplicity.

✨ Key Features

User-friendly Text::Amuse markup (compatible with Emacs Muse) for easy authoring and HTML import preserving logical structure
High-quality multi-format outputs including LaTeX-powered PDF (with imposition and crop marks), EPUB, HTML, and slides
Git backend for revision control, offline editing, and reliable archiving
Bookbuilder for creating collections, OPDS server for mobile reading apps, and fast Xapian-powered full-text search
Multisite support, 20+ language localizations, RSS feeds, mail notifications, and syntax highlighting

Optional: Blog-style features in recent releases

🛠 Tech Stack

Backend: Perl (Plack/PSGI FastCGI), Git backend
Database: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite
Rendering: TeX Live (LaTeX PDFs), Ghostscript (previews)
Search: Xapian
Frontend: Custom HTML/CSS/JS (highlight.js for syntax)
Webserver: nginx (recommended), Apache, Caddy
Auth: Custom wiki user roles
Hosting: Self-hosted (Debian/Ubuntu recommended)

👥 Who Is This For?

This project is useful for:

Librarians and digital archivists who want to manage and publish text collections
Authors and indie publishers building books and articles with professional outputs
Self-hosters and teams seeking a wiki for long-term text storage and collaboration

📸 Screenshots / Demo

Live demo: https://amusewiki.org
Sandbox: https://sandbox.amusewiki.org
GitHub: https://github.com/melmothx/amusewiki

🔥 Project Status

🟢 Actively building

Last updated: 2026-03-24

❓ FAQ

Is this project free?

Yes / Open Source (Fully free software under Perl's license (Artistic 2.0 or GPL).)

Is the source code available?

Yes — https://github.com/melmothx/amusewiki

Can I contribute?

Report bugs/feature requests on GitHub issues (https://github.com/melmothx/amusewiki/issues), join IRC #amusewiki for discussions, submit pull requests to the repo.