Sputnik (software)

Sputnik

File:Sputnik wiki engine logo.png
File:Sputnik-screenshot.png
Developer(s)	Sputnik Launch Team
Initial release	2007 (2007-12)
Stable release	9.03.16 / 16, 2009 (2009-03-16)
Operating system	Cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows)
Type	Wiki
License	MIT
Website	http://spu.tnik.org

The Sputnik Wiki is a lightweight, cross-platform example of the wiki software application type. It is written in Lua and runs over multiple web servers (Apache/CGI and Kepler/Xavante). A basic Sputnik wiki runs in about 2000 LOC complete. The product's extensibility and configurability allows it to be morphed into other types of webapps, such as a photo album, bug tracker (in 120 lines of code), blog, or calendar.

Features

Differentiating features (among Wikis) include:

• A Sputnik/Kepler installation uses 1Mb.
• No-compile installation
• Sputnik ships with the webapp stack included.
• Lua installation not required
• root/Administrator not required

Architecture

The Webapp architecture stacks up like this:

• Configuration managed by configuration nodes, which perform actions sent to them as much as describe configuration.
• Plugins via LuaRocks (Markup, Storage, Authentication/CAPTCHA, etc.)
• Cosmo templates
• Markup: Markdown, Medialike, or POD
• Saci document storage system, somewhat similar to a CMS.
• Versium storage management API.
• Storage options: Database (SQLite3 or MySQL) and Git
• Kepler
• Xavante, an http server using Copas (below)
• Copas
• LuaSocket
• Lua

License

The Sputnik team grants use of the product under an Open Source MIT-styled (attribution) license.

External links

• Sputnik project web site
• Sputnik sandbox