SWiK.net is a SourceLabs project to help people collaboratively document open-source software.

SWiK is visited by tens of thousands of people daily, it’s a place to make notes and publish articles on software development and open source projects, tag projects to help organize the world of open source, or just browse around and find interesting stuff.

This wiki is community run and completely open – it depends on editors like you to help build pages with useful information about using open source software and developing applications. The wiki engine is written from scratch by SourceLabs.

You Can Help

Editing pages is easy, just go to the page you want to edit and click the edit button in the top right. Be bold, if you see something wrong or something missing: just fix it.

You can also syndicate RSS feeds into SWiK. This is useful in cases such as a project news feed, or a tips and tricks blog. Every registered user of SWiK also has a set of personal pages, and you might want to syndicate your personal feeds into SWiK as well – such as your del.icio.us bookmarks or your blog.

For more on this, check out Getting Started on the links at left.

Links

• Popular Developers
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sandbox

Tech Details

SWiK uses Ajax/JavaScript to make editing easier and faster; you can try playing around with the editing capabilities in sandbox.

To make editing easier, SWiK also uses the Textile markup language, which is simpler and faster to write than raw HTML. With Textile, you don’t have to type <strong>words</strong> if you want to make something strong. Instead you can just type *strong*, which is much more convenient.

To cross reference various pages in SWiK, you can use either tags, or you can use wiki links: [[this is the wiki link format]].

In June, 2008 SourceLabs launched an early version of books.swik.net bringing the power of the Swik platform to the world of books, book collecting, and reading.