WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.

Current version is 3.8.2

Developed under the GNU GPL license, the project homepage can be found at sourceforge and the required files/updates are available for download there. A FreeBSD port by Babak Farrokhi may be downloaded from http://www.freshports.org/www/wikindx.

The sourceforge site has all the appropriate contact details, forums for you to report bugs, request features etc.

Since v3.7, WIKINDX provides the possibility to interface and integrate with Content Management Systems which use 'replacement tags' or similar. There are known to be a Moodle filter, a MediaWiki filter, a dokuwiki plug-in (a dokuwiki site using the WIKINDX plug-in is here), a WordPress plug-in and a phpWCMS filter and similar filters for other CMSs are easily written.  Tips on using jsMath with WIKINDX can be found here.

WIKINDX...

• can manage all my bibliographic data allowing me to search through them with an accuracy and speed that cannot be duplicated with index cards.
• enables me to store unlimited quotes, paraphrases and thoughts and to efficiently cross-reference them in a searchable database.
• is free, stable and open source allowing me to cast off the shackles of commercial, licensed software.
• supports non-English multi-byte character sets.
• runs on all major operating systems (*NIX, OsX, Windows).
• runs not only on a desktop computer but also on a web server so I can access my bibliography from any networked point or share my bibliography with my research team.
• allows multiple attachments for each bibliographic resource.
• can export my bibliography in various bibliographic styles (APA, Chicago, IEEE for example).
• allows me to edit or create bibliographic styles through a graphical interface.
• integrates a WYSIWYG word processor with easy importation of quotes etc. so that at long last I can write an article, from draft through to publication with automatic citation formatting, entirely within the one software.
• at the click of a mouse button will reformat my article to another citation style whether that style uses footnotes, endnotes or in-text citation.
• can import and export other bibliographic formats including BibTeX or Endnote format.
• supports multiple users.

WIKINDX is all this and more.

WIKINDX in India
A complimentary write-up on WIKINDX in The Hindu, "India's National Newspaper". 13/Dec/2004

WIKINDX written up in The Scout Report
"With the advent of intellectual and scholarly projects that span the continents, it can be advantageous to have an effective program that allows multiple users access to shared bibliographies. WIKINDX ... is one such program..." Read more... 26/Nov/2004

WIKINDX is listed in the Free Software Foundation/UNESCO Database Applications listing. 15/Dec/2004

WIKINDX written up at Linux.com
"Wikindx can manage all of your reference materials, include them in research papers ... a powerful tool for writing scholarly papers with references..." Read more... 27/May/2008

From Tailored Databases to Wikis: Using Emerging Technologies to Work Together More Efficiently in Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management vol.3 103-113 (2008).
A description of WIKINDX and a study of its use at Cemagref (French public research institute). Read more... 1/August/2008

WIKINDX Requirements:
The client accesses the database via a standard (graphical) web browser. The server end of WIKINDX requires and has been developed and tested on the following free (or free for non-commercial use) software (which runs at least on Linux, Apple OSX and Windows):

1. PHP >= v4.3.x (WIKINDX will not work on earlier versions)
2. MySQL >= v3.23.xx (WIKINDX may or may not work on earlier versions)
3. Apache >= v1.3.x (but you can use any web server able to run PHP scripts)

Windows users wanting to run WIKINDX as a single user on their desktop may be interested in the very handy WAMP5 Server for Windows. Installing and configuring Apache/PHP/MySQL on Windows can be a bit of a chore - WAMP5 is an all-in-one install for those wishing to run WIKINDX from their Windows desktop. WIKINDX uses PHP's mysql_connect() rather than mysqli_connect() so make sure you grab the appropriate download if indicated on the download site.

Some users have reported problems with some versions of WAMP5. The following versions are known to be problematic (although the problem may be related to the Windows version being used):

• WAMP5 v1.4.1
• WAMP5 v1.6.2
• WAMP5 v1.6.3

The following versions are known to work on various Windows platforms:

• WAMP5 v1.3.2
• WAMP5 v1.4.5
• WAMP5 v1.6.0
• WAMP5 v1.7.4

The full list of WAMP5 downloads (older and newer versions) is available at the WAMP5 Sourceforge site. There are some simple instuctions on configuring WAMP5 to work with WIKINDX here.