Feather Wiki

A tiny tool for simple, self-contained wikis!

Features /

Known Limitations

There are a handful of things that Feather Wiki either simply cannot do or struggles with:

  • Certain quality of life features, optimizations, and data validations are excluded where possible to save on space.
    • Feather Wiki is a deliberately barebones tool built for the novelty of being as tiny as possible, so you may run into occasional issues or annoyances.
  • Feather Wiki will not notify you of new versions as they are released.
  • While absolutely not necessary for normal use, a modest knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will help you get a lot more out of Feather Wiki.
  • Extensions that change the way Feather Wiki renders (i.e. adding/changing things on the screen, changing the Markdown parser, etc.) will typically cause the screen to flicker.
    • This is because the replacement causes a re-render of the page, and unfortunately cannot be avoided.
  • Nested lists in Markdown struggle with alternating types (i.e. switching from ordered to unordered lists and back within nested lists)
    • Try to stick with either ordered or unordered lists in a single list when nesting them (as seen on this page).
  • Search is not (and will never be) built in to Feather Wiki to save on file size (but ask yourself, do you really need it?)
    • If you do really need it and don't mind the extra bandwidth + file size, check out the Search extension.
  • The way Feather Wiki stores data in its file means that writing </script> anywhere in your pages may cause loading problems after it is saved and re-loaded.
    • To get around this problem, you can either use the escaped &lt;/script&gt; or put a backslash before the slash whenever you type it (<\/script>) so the browser doesn't identify it as a real HTML tag.