2 years ago today, I decided that I'd build a wiki. At the time, I was unsatisfied with all the currently solutions out there - they were either too bulky, old and unmaintained, or just otherwise not quite right. I decided to build something different: An entire wiki in a single file. One single file that you can drop onto your web server and have it just work.

Although I've had to rework and rewrite a few things along the way, development has generally gone ok. I've found that as it's grown, I've needed to change the way I design it slightly - it's been a great learning experience!

In May this year, I managed to get Pepperminty Wiki into Awesome Self Hosted, a list of cool pieces of software that you can host on your own server - a list that has ~12,000 stars on GitHub.

Fast forward to the present, and I find myself with an awesome wiki - that's still all contained in a single file. It's powered by Parsedown. It supports multiple users, page protection, sub pages, full text search (!), customisable themes, tags, redirects, and more! It's also got a whole host of configurable settings system - allowing you to customise how your wiki works to your liking. Best of all, it's got a flexible module based system - so anyone can come along and write a new module to extend it's functionality.

If this sounds like the kind of thing you'd like to use yourself, just head over to the getting your own copy section on it's page (for the lazy, the online downloader is here).

Going forwards, I'd like to a commenting system to let people comment on pages on a wiki. I'd like to add edit previews. I'd like to add a GUI for the settings file. I've got so many ideas that it's difficult to choose which to do next :D

Thank you, everyone for the last 2 years. Here's to another 2 amazing fun filled years! I don't intend to stop development any time soon :D