TWiki
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.
Recent releases
- 30 Apr 2009 07:21
Changes: This patch release fixes a CSRF vulnerability with the image tag, changes TWiki to use ISO date format by default, and fixes a number of bugs.
- 06 Apr 2009 13:51
Changes: This release includes enhanced security, search, and enterprise collaboration capabilities. The new security enhancement provides added protection against malicious attacks that exploit inherent vulnerabilities in cross-site scripting. Enhanced search capabilities enable TWiki users to perform advanced searching, including adding footer parameter and topics to formatted searches. Enhanced enterprise collaboration capabilities provide added newsfeeds to TWiki topics as well as flexible corporate look-and-feel options using built-in TWiki Skin plug-ins.
- 10 Dec 2008 08:28
Changes: This patch release fixes two major security issues, as well as over 30 defects.
- 25 Jan 2008 13:33
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.
- 16 Dec 2007 16:01
Changes: Many minor bugfixes.
- All comments
Recent commentsgood and bad
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.
TWiki deployment
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.