CoWiki
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- The correct title of this article is coWiki. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
coWiki is a wiki engine implemented in PHP and using a MySQL database. It is licenced under the GNU General Public License. coWiki uses a markup language similar to that of TWiki.
Distinguishing features:
- Unix-style access control
- Database back-end
- Pseudo-hierarchical file system
[edit] coWiki History
The creator, Daniel T. Gorski, originally began development of coWiki in December 2001 as a weekend study to learn how a wiki works.
The first release (0.2.0) was in March of 2002 for the BLUE MARS GmbH intranet.
Daniel began to look for new maintainers for the project on January 3, 2005.[1] New maintainers were found in a few days on January 12, 2005, lead by Paul Hanchett.
Development soon moved into the open source software host tigris.org, where the 0.3.4 maintenance release was completed by the new staff on February 24, 2005.
By April 2006, it became obvious that the maintainers did not have the personal time to spend on the project, and on June 13th 2006, maintainer status was changed to include some new people. As of November 2006 there has been no development activity and very little mailing list activity.
On November 7th 2006, the cowiki.org website was taken down and archived, awaiting a new team for the project.
As of November 2006, coWiki is still used in a production capacity on personal and corporate websites and intranets. Daniel and a handful of other developers still offer consultation services and custom-programming focused around coWiki installations.
