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.

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🚀 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.

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✨ 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

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🛠 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)

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👥 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

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📸 Screenshots / Demo

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

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🔥 Project Status

• 🟢 Actively building

Last updated: 2026-03-24

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❓ 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.

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📬 Contact & Links

• Website: https://amusewiki.org
• GitHub: https://github.com/melmothx/amusewiki
• Twitter/X:
• Email: info@amusewiki.org

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