TWiki

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TWiki
Maintainer:	Peter Thoeny with TWiki contributors
Stable release:	4.1.2 (March 03, 2007) _[+/-]
Preview release:	None (None) _[+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Wiki
License:	GPL
Website:	twiki.org

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TWiki is a structured wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or any other shared application - it can also be used to run a blog. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser over the Internet or an intranet. TWiki allows users without programming skills to create wiki applications, and developers can extend its functionality with plugins.

1 Introduction
2 Major features
3 Releases
4 TWiki.org Community Wiki
5 Some public sites running TWiki
6 Gallery
7 External links

[edit] Introduction

TWiki can be used as a shared whiteboard like any other wiki. TWiki also enables users to create simple form-based web applications, without programming. Other enhancements include revision control, fine grained access control (though it can also operate in the classic 'no authentication' mode), configuration variables, variable text, transclusion, email notification, RSS/Atom, embedded searches, server-side includes, file attachments.

TWiki has a plugin API that has spawned over 255 plugins to link into databases, create charts, tags, sort tables, write spreadsheets, create image gallery and slideshows, make drawings, write blogs, plot all kinds of graphs, interface to many different authentication schemes, track Extreme Programming projects and so on.

TWiki is fully skinnable in templates, themes and (per user) CSS, and can be used to create modern-looking wiki sites. It includes reasonably good support for internationalization ('I18N'), with support for multiple character sets, UTF-8 URLs, and the user interface has been translated into several languages, currently Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Swedish.

The ease of its revision control and the availability of access control lists makes TWiki especially suited for enterprise and corporate wiki sites (estimated at 40,000 sites as of March 2007), while other features make it popular for Internet wiki sites (estimated at 20,000 sites). TWiki is implemented in Perl and is Free and Open Source Software licensed under GPL. It is also available as a virtual appliance.

[edit] Major features

Revision control - complete audit trail, also for meta data such as access control settings
Fine-grained access control by user groups
Comprehensive markup language, easy to learn
WYSIWYG editor
Dynamic content generation by TWiki variables
No database is needed (stored as text files)
Structured information can be captured using forms
Users without programming skills can create wiki applications
Hundreds of plugins
Customizable sidebar, topbar, and bottom bar

[edit] Releases

TWiki has low server requirements: Perl, GNU diff, and GNU grep. RCS is optional, since an all-Perl equivalent is provided.

The names in parentheses below are the codenames used in developing a release.

Latest release download, virtual machine download, TWiki for Windows Personal download
TWiki-4.1.2 Release (03-Mar-2007) (Edinburgh)
TWiki-4.0.5 Release (24-Oct-2006) (Dakar)
TWiki Release 04-Sep-2004 (Cairo)
TWiki Release 01-Feb-2003 (Beijing)
TWiki Release 01-Dec-2001 (Athens)
TWiki Release 01-Sep-2001
TWiki Release 01-Dec-2000
TWiki Release 01-May-2000

See detailed TWiki release history.

[edit] TWiki.org Community Wiki

twiki.org has a community wiki with 50K pages dedicated to TWiki and wikis in general:

Codev web: Collaborate on wiki technology and on core TWiki engine development
TWiki web: Document TWiki software
Plugins web: Package and list TWiki extensions (plugins, add-ons, skins, code contributions)
Support web: Support users and administrators of TWiki