Wikindx

WIKINDX
Developer(s)	Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard & Stéphane Aulery
Initial release	February 2003;22 years ago
Stable release	6.11.0 / October 11, 2024;3 months ago
Repository	sourceforge.net/p/wikindx/svn/HEAD/tree/
Written in	PHP/MySQL
Operating system	Portable
Type	Reference management
License	ISC
Website	wikindx.sourceforge.io

Last updated February 04, 2025

WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system (virtual research environment) designed either for single use (on a variety of operating systems) and multi-user collaborative use across the internet.^[2] WIKINDX falls within the category of reference management software, but also provides functionality to write notes and entire papers.^[3]

User features

User features include:

41 resource types (Artwork, Audiovisual, Bill, Book, Book Article, Book Chapter Number, Broadcast, Brochure, Chart/Image, Classical Work, Conference Paper, Conference Poster, Film, Government Report/Documentation, Hearing, Journal Article, Legal Case, Legal Rule/Regulation, Magazine Article, Manuscript, Map, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Section, Music Score, Newspaper Article, Online Database, Patent, Personal Communication, Proceedings, Proceedings Article, Recorded Music Album, Recorded Music Track, Report/Documentation, Software, Statute, Thesis/Dissertation, Unpublished Work, Web Article, Web Encyclopedia, Web Encyclopedia Article, Web Site).
29 translations included for major languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Portuguese [Brazil], Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian).
Multi-user mode – create and manage bibliographies drawn from the WIKINDX master bibliography and browse other users' bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
Create user groups and user group bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
Save custom preferences.
Enter/edit bibliographic resources.
Add and search unlimited file attachments to each resource. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
Catalogue resources by categories, sub-categories and keyword(s).
Enter/edit a general note about the whole resource.
Enter/edit quotes and paraphrases from those resources.
Enter/edit thoughts or musings on various aspects of a resource (can be private or public).
Enter/edit ideas that are independent of resources.
Add keywords to resource metadata such as quotes, paraphrases and musings.
Cross-reference other WIKINDX resources from within quotes, paraphrases, musings, ideas, notes and abstracts.
Edit keywords, creators, publishers and journals.
Comprehensive search across all the above with highlighting of search terms using either Quick Search or the flexible Advanced Search.
Reorder bibliographic lists by first creator, title, resource type, publisher, year of publication or timestamp.
Browse all creators, publishers, collections, categories and keywords with font colour and size indicating frequency of occurrence.
Unlimited primary creators, editors, translators and revisers, composers, agents, performers etc.
Import bibliographies into WIKINDX and export bibliographies – Endnote, RIS, BibTeX, RTF, HTML, PubMed. (Import must be enabled by the administrator.)
Export bibliographic lists (optionally annotated) with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
Export ideas with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
Cut 'n' Paste BibTeX entries to the database (amount limited by the administrator).
View and export in various bibliographic styles including ABNT, Chicago, MLA, APA, Harvard, Turabian, British Medical Journal and IEEE.
User-defined paging of long bibliographic lists.
View all resources, quotes, paraphrases and musings or a single random one.
One-click return to last bibliographic list or single view.
Store up to 20 bookmarks for quick return to single views and resource lists.
Add resources to a temporary basket for viewing and exporting.
Select a visual style.
Import WIKINDX resources into Zotero.

Administrator features

Administrator features include:

Builtin and LDAP auth.
Design custom CSS templates for web browser display and integrate WIKINDX into an existing web site.
Enable/disable multi-user mode, add users or allow user self-registration.
Several levels of write and read only access.
Delete resources.
Add custom text fields to resources.
Manage users and resource categories and sub-categories.
Merge keywords into one keyword.
Merge and group creators into one creator.
Import bibliographies into WIKINDX and export bibliographies – Endnote, RIS, BibTeX, RTF, HTML, PubMed
Manage plugins, visual templates, citation styles, and localizations.
Add general news items and optionally email the item to registered users.
Optionally receive email notification of user registrations.
Provide a RSS feed of latest additions and edits.
WIKINDX resources can be optionally indexed by Google Scholar.
WIKINDX has an architecture enabling the easy writing of plugins to expand its features.
User registration requests implement anti-spam/bot measures.
Attachments can be embargoed (blocked from public view) until a specified date – the embargo is automatically lifted on or after the specified date. Until that time, only admins can view embargoed attachments.

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References

↑ "WIKINDX latest version download".
↑ "WIKINDX". SourceForge.net.
↑ Tuzi, Frank (May 27, 2008). "Wikindx facilitates academic writing in a browser". Linux.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.

Bibliography

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[1] "WIKINDX latest version download".

[2] "WIKINDX". SourceForge.net.

[3] Tuzi, Frank (May 27, 2008). "Wikindx facilitates academic writing in a browser". Linux.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.

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v t e Reference management software
Open source	BibDesk BibSonomy JabRef KBibTeX Pybliographer refer Referencer Wikindx Zotero
Retail	Biblioscape Bookends Citavi EndNote Mendeley Paperpile Papers ProCite (discontinued) Qiqqa Reference Manager (discontinued)
Web-based	BibSonomy KnightCite Mendeley Paperpile Qiqqa refbase RefWorks Wikindx WizFolio (discontinued) Zotero
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