Ask HN: Looking for a Static wiki generator

It seems that the terminology is causing some confusion. The definition of a wiki is "a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser" [1], which is pretty much the opposite of "static." I assume that what you want is a static site generator that has organisational features that are common in wiki software...<p>My favourite wiki software is Gitit [2]. It uses Pandoc [3] to convert from an input format (such as Markdown) to HTML. Perhaps you could write a simple script that iterates through all source files and renders the HTML to a destination directory using Pandoc, creating any subdirectories as required. That minimal solution should be very easy to implement; adding organisational markup within the HTML would require some programming.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki</a><p>[2] <a href="http://gitit.net/" rel="nofollow">http://gitit.net/</a><p>[3] <a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/" rel="nofollow">http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/</a>

I'm sure people will chime in with more information here, but you might be interested in previous discussions of this and similar questions:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860457" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860457</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4858436" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4858436</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857473" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857473</a>

So if it's a wiki, how do you intend to make a change, given that it's static? I'd be interested to see how your solution to that design issue compares with the solution I came up with over a decade ago.