About:
TWiki is a flexible, powerful, and simple Web based collaboration platform. It is suitable for dynamic intranets and knowledge bases, and for sharing and managing documents and collaborative projects. It resembles a normal Web site, but every page can be changed from a browser. It features automatic link generation, full text search, group authorization, Web forms, reporting, change notification, file attachments, revision control of pages and attachments, a modular templating system with skins, hierarchical navigation based on the topic parenting feature, and more. Plugins can be used to enhance the program and build groupware applications.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
This release has a completely new, simple to use WYSIWYG editor that virtually eliminates the need for training and promotes faster and more inclusive take up of the wiki within the organization. It has an SQL-style query language for programmable search. A new restore feature allows for easier rollback and policing of page changes/edits. There are installation enhancements to make installation and upgrades easier. Improved login name/wiki name mapping to enable easier integration with external authentication mechanisms, such as LDAP. An improved plugins API.

Author:
Peter Thoeny [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.60/10.00 (20 votes)

Homepage:
http://TWiki.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://twiki.org/download.html
Zip:
http://twiki.org/download.html
Changelog:
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiHistory
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.twiki.org/svn/twiki/branches/
Bug tracker:
http://develop.twiki.org/
Demo site:
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Communications :: File Sharing, Information Management :: Document Repositories, Information Management :: Issue Tracking, Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models, Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries, Office/Business :: Groupware, Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.2.0	25-Jan-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Beta	4.2.0-rc1	04-Dec-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.2.0	Minor feature enhancements	25-Jan-2008 13:33
4.1.2	Minor bugfixes	16-Dec-2007 16:01
4.1.1	Major bugfixes	04-Feb-2007 20:32
4.1	Minor feature enhancements	17-Jan-2007 18:57
4.0.1	Major bugfixes	07-Feb-2006 22:39
4.0.0	Major feature enhancements	02-Feb-2006 23:56
01 Sep 2004	Major feature enhancements	03-Sep-2004 04:38
01 Feb 2003	Major feature enhancements	05-Feb-2003 02:15
01 Dec 2001	Minor feature enhancements	09-Dec-2001 23:11
01 Sep 2001	Major feature enhancements	20-Sep-2001 15:28

 Articles referencing this project

• TWiki
  by Catie Flick , in Project Reviews
  Sat, Feb 14th 2004 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] good and bad
by Tom - Oct 4th 2003 04:52:38

There are a number of very good points in this Wiki, but also some horrible ones.

I especially dislike the user management, which is just horrible and the default installation keeps you completely in the dark about how to start with admin work. Registration is missing important information and the whole Login/Logout interface is "cleverly" (rather not) hidden.
That it (apparently intentionally) ships with the developers being admins on your Wiki is something I find hard to describe without becoming insulting.

On the plus site, the multiple webs idea seems great, the fact that you can manage most of the configuration right from the Wiki is a welcome change, and that it doesn't require a database will be a plus for many people without.
There are also a lot of plugins available to extend functionality, and several skins to change the looks, even though some of them I wouldn't willingly inflict on anyone.

If you are looking for a powerful basic engine and want/can invest work on customizing it so it becomes useable, this is one you definitely want to try.

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[»] TWiki deployment
by Carl Mikkelsen - Jan 31st 2003 09:45:54

I have deployed TWiki on my companies intranet, and it is slowly gaining use. We needed a knowledge base, as well as a document production system. TWiki is serving as both.

I made some changes to one plugin to better serve our needs -- the TocPlugin. It now creates streamlined HTML which can be processed into PDF files for customer distributions.

Because GoodTechnology is good in many contexts, I've added a TWiki to my home web for home metalworking projects and intrafamily communication.

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