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Beacon; the SIMPLE free wiki and tag based publishing system!
Beacon allows non technical people easy page editing and categorization of web pages making Beacon idea for groups of people wishing to collaborate around a documentation or composition project.
Beacon features:
Wiki article formatting and linking
Hierarchical categorisation of articles
Customisable menus
File upload and inclusion in article content
RSS feed
Article commenting
Open or restricted editing
Templated design
Captcha security
Database abstraction layer (works with many types of database)
Multilingual (content and interface)
Spellchecking
Required PHP and database such as MySQL - See install.txt for full requirments.
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Registration Date: Thu 12 May 2005 05:27:13 PM UTC
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Development Status: 9 - Decommissioned
Latest News
Beacon version 0.2.1 released!
posted by
barnraiser
, Sat 12 Nov 2005 02:01:26 PM UTC
We are very happy to announce the release of version 0.2.1 of Beacon; the SIMPLE free wiki and tag based publishing system!
Beacon allows non technical people easy page editing and categorization of web pages making Beacon idea for groups of people wishing to collaborate around a documentation or composition project.
[...]
Beacon version 0.2.0 released !
posted by
barnraiser
, Tue 08 Nov 2005 10:55:00 AM UTC
We are very happy to announce the release of version 0.2.0 of Beacon; the SIMPLE free wiki and tag based publishing system!
Beacon allows non technical people easy page editing and categorization of web pages making Beacon idea for groups of people wishing to collaborate around a documentation or composition project.
[...]
Beacon version 0.1.7 released
posted by
barnraiser
, Sun 14 Aug 2005 12:11:14 PM UTC
Beacon is a very simple, free date and category driven web site publishing system ideal for individuals or small groups of people wishing to collaborate. It looks like a Blog, but behaves like a Wiki.
We are very happy to announce the release of version 0.1.7 of beacon. New in this release is tagging, allowing people to tag (categorise) articles and HTML support.
Beacon version 0.1.6 released
posted by
barnraiser
, Sun 19 Jun 2005 01:27:02 PM UTC
Beacon is a very simple, free date and category driven web site publishing system ideal for individuals or small groups of people wishing to collaborate. It looks like a Blog, but behaves like a Wiki.
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Wiki article formatting and linking
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