Kisimi can act as an open wiki allowing all users access to edit functions or can require user permission at a category or page level. Most of the features are listed below, but some may not make the cut while new ones may make an appearance at any time.

As always, your feedback will help to keep some features or kill off others.

• Making a change to a page requires no knowledge of any code - no HTML, CSS, PHP or other acronyms needed.
• A simple toolbar helps you to insert the right formatting, links, images or code into your page.
• Each change to a page is saved to a page History and can be recovered with a mouse click. View the differences between page changes easily or just see who made the last few changes.
• While editing a page you can use the Preview option to check you’ve got it right.
• Enter content in any language, from русский язык to ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi to Māori to 文言 to 汉语/漢語
• Don’t want anyone else to see your page’s content? No problems, just change the Page Security.
• Your War and Peace epic has been typed out and you’d rather that only you and your editor can make changes? Simple, just change the Page Security and add your editor as someone with View/edit rights.
• Categories and pages can use a simple concept of ownership whereby the first author becomes the owner.
• Logged in users can view all the pages they created and the categories they ‘own’.
• Each page has a nifty little box of information called Page Info that shows the basics when you want to see the who, what and when.
• Discussing a page with other community members means not having to ‘argue’ through plenty of page edits.
• Kisimi users can send messages to each other without disclosing their email addresses. Each member has their own Messaging section which holds an Inbox and Sent Items.
• Automatically report potentially inappropriate page content or discussions to the admin team.
• You can apply a license to your content from the Creative Commons that appears at the bottom of your page.
• Long pages with multiple headings get an automatic table of contents. Clicking on the ToC heading jumps you to the right place.
• If you see something you think a friend may like, you can email a link to them without leaving the site.
• Users can upload files as Attachments. A simple linking mechanism inserts these into pages. Handy for image files, PDFs to help enrich your documentation.
• Uploading a file of the same name, as you’ve already saved, automatically creates a new version. Each version is saved and you can roll back to any previous version.
• You can choose to apply permissions to your Attachments which prevents others from downloading your files. (Note: Doesn’t apply to images that appear in your pages)
• A simple Timeline function tracks the changes happening throughout the Kisimi installation.
• You leave ‘breadcrumbs’ as you move around the site allowing you to jump back to a recent page you visited.
• If you use the Firefox web browser you have the option to use the Universal Edit button.
• Any pages that you own can be exported to an XML file and reimported to another Kisimi installation. It’s also a simple way of making off-line edits.
• Easy searching for content in the wiki using +iwantthis or -idontwantthis type options for filtering out the stuff you don’t want.

If you download Kisimi and install it yourself you’ll also benefit from the following tools to help guide rather than control your users.

• Kisimi is released as a free Open Source product under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
• A simple installation or upgrade process that’ll give you a working system in a few minutes.
• Kisimi uses the same tried and proven Apache, PHP and MySQL systems that power most of the internet’s big sites like Facebook and Flickr. All of which are free!
• Simple category and page management.
• The ability to censor and remove inappropriate content while automatically advising the users involved.
• Built-in use of the reCaptcha tool to help prevent spam while helping proof read books.
• Block IP addresses of persistent spammers or extreme repeat offenders of site policy.
• Simple admin option to include Google Analytics code in each page.
• Change the look and feel of your Kisimi installation by editing the CSS files.