FlexWiki is an open source wiki engine written primarily by David Ornstein and which is part of Microsoft's Shared source initiative. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Wiki software is a type of collaborative software that runs a Wiki system. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) (HKSE: 4338) is the worlds largest software company, with global annual sales in the tens of billions of US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries. ... Shared Source is an open source-like form of code sharing which is generally more restrictive than true open source, but less so than proprietary code. ...

The engine is licensed under IBM's Common Public License. FlexWiki uses .NET technology and has an integrated, scripting language called WikiTalk. WikiTalk is based on the SmallTalk programming language (hence its name). It is a simple object oriented language that allows users to add dynamic behaviors to their topics. International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... The CPL (Common Public License) is an open source license from IBM. Its license terms have been approved by the Open Source Initiative. ... The . ... Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective, programming language designed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Adele Goldberg, and others during the 1970s, influenced by Sketchpad and Simula. ...

Along with Windows Installer XML (WiX) and Windows Template Library (WTL), FlexWiki was the third Microsoft project to be distributed via SourceForge. The code was released in September 2004. WiX stands for The Windows Installer Xml (WiX) toolset (pronounced wicks toolset), it is an XML toolset that builds Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages from an XML document. ... The Windows Template Library (WTL) is an object-oriented Win32 encapsulation C++ library by Microsoft. ... SourceForge is a collaborative software development management system. ...

Although most Wiki software systems use a DBMS to store their content, FlexWiki started out with a textual storage system. Content was stored in text files, which, while reducing some of the administrative overhead of maintaining a wiki site, makes it difficult or impossible to scale such a system. With the release of v1.8.01653, however, it became possible to store FlexWiki's content in an SQL Server database, and thus to scale the wiki software to a server farm. The original textual storage system is still available, however, and is the default storage type. Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system produced by Microsoft. ...

FlexWiki is also used on several open source sites especially Sourceforge.net which hosts many open source applications.

Sites or wikis running FlexWiki

1. Channel 9
2. SourceForge.net

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External link

• FlexWiki Community Page
• FlexWiki Shared Source Licensing Program