This software enables you to maintain a personal wiki of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay’s Federalist Papers. Appropriate for both independent research and coursework, this personal wiki lets you keep a custom-annotated version of Federalist Papers for lifelong study tailored to your educational needs. David Fisco provides this wiki to you free of charge under an open source license.

You will need to learn how to use TiddlyWiki, the software on which the Federalist Papers wiki is based. (TiddlyWiki isn’t too difficult to master.) Since TiddlyWiki runs in most modern browsers, you can use your Web browser to view and edit your personal Federalist Papers wiki, even when offline. Tablets and smartphones are also supported.

You can take a peek at the Federalist Papers wiki without downloading it to your machine.

Learning TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is the software underlying the Federalist Papers wiki. You must learn the basic administration and editing of TiddlyWiki to maximize use of your wiki. I recommend using these resources:

  1. Introduction to TiddlyWiki
    A YouTube video from TiddlyWiki’s creator, Jeremy Ruston, giving you an overview of TiddlyWiki
  2. Discover TiddlyWiki
    A bit more in-depth introduction to the features of TiddlyWiki
  3. Learning TiddlyWiki
    A collection of tiddlers you can use to learn administration and use of TiddlyWiki
  4. WikiText
    Information on the markup language you will use to edit tiddlers. WikiText resembles Markdown.

Download your Federalist Papers wiki

  • .ZIP compressed
    Download a compressed version of the wiki. If not already on your computer, you will need .ZIP software to decompress the file.

  • HTML in browser
    Open the wiki in a new window or tab in your browser. You will need to use the “Save as…” functionality of your browser to save the HTML file to your desired location in your file system.

Release information

The current version of the Federalist Papers wiki was released on 30 March 2015. Corrections and additions to the base Federalist Papers wiki will be posted on this site.

Upgrading TiddlyWiki

You will probably want to upgrade the underlying TiddlyWiki software for your Federalist Papers wiki. You can upgrade by following the TiddlyWiki upgrade instructions.

License

The collection of tiddlers specific to David Fisco’s Federalist Papers personal wiki is released under the MIT license stated below. The TiddlyWiki software is open source software licensed independently.

Copyright © 2015-2016 David Fisco

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.