gitit

how about a look see at gitit? http://github.com/jgm/gitit Its a general wiki app that by default is backed by git, though darcs and mercurial are designed to work too, and it also has the webserver functionality baked in. Oh, and it does syntax highlighting for pretty much any language if you compile it accordingly, and it supports several different backeds for rendering latex math equations! And since its written in haskell, all you need to do change backend functionality is write a bugfree snippet of the same type as the code you're swapping out, and tada! edit: also see http://gitit.johnmacfarlane.net/ for a live example

While we're talking about Git-backed wikis, Gitit has been around for a little while now: http://github.com/jgm/gitit It supports Darcs and Mercurial repositories as well as Git.

There are several ways to adjust access. The easiest way to limit editors is with the 'access-question' field in the configuration file; if you use the field, then the "question" must be answered by anyone setting up an account. # Example: # access-question: What is the code given to you by Ms. X? # access-question-answers: RED DOG, red dog See http://github.com/jgm/gitit/blob/master/data/default.conf Or see, e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/gitit-discuss/msg/e07fcabd70b... On patch-tag.com (which hosts darcs projects) the gitit wikis are set up differently, with the natural default that they are only editable by members of the project. You might sign up there with an arbitrary 'test project' so you could try out the wiki mechanism. (Many users just use it for the wiki, apparently, though I can't point to an example.) (The patch-ta

Gitit (http://github.com/jgm/gitit) uses git by default. (But it now also supports darcs and mercurial: the darcs version is used by the wikis on http://patch-tag.com/ and, unsurprisingly, by the darcs wiki http://wiki.darcs.net/ )