TWiki

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TWiki
Developer(s) Peter Thoeny
Initial release23 July 1998;25 years ago (1998-07-23)
Stable release
6.1.0 [1] / 2018-07-16 [±]
Preview release None (None) [±]
Repository
Written in Perl
Type Wiki
License GPL
Website twiki.org

TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, [2] typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal. Users can create wiki pages using the TWiki Markup Language, and developers can extend wiki application functionality with plugins.

Contents

The TWiki project was founded by Peter Thoeny in 1998 as an open-source wiki-based application platform. In October 2008, the company TWiki.net, created by Thoeny, assumed full control over the TWiki project [3] while much of the developer community [4] [5] forked off to join the Foswiki project. [6]

Major features

TWiki extensions

TWiki has a plugin API that has spawned over 300 extensions [7] to link into databases, create charts, tags, sort tables, write spreadsheets, create image gallery and slideshows, make drawings, write blogs, plot graphs, interface to many different authentication schemes, track Extreme Programming projects and so on.

TWiki application platform

TWiki as a structured wiki provides database-like manipulation of fields stored on pages, [8] and offers a SQL-like query language to embed reports in wiki pages. [9]

Wiki applications are also called situational applications because they are created ad hoc by the users for very specific needs. Users have built TWiki applications [10] that include call center status boards, to-do lists, inventory systems, employee handbooks, bug trackers, blog applications, discussion forums, status reports with rollups and more.

User interface

The interface of TWiki is completely skinnable in templates, themes and (per user) CSS. It includes support for internationalization ('I18N'), with support for multiple character sets, UTF-8 URLs, and the user interface has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. [11]

TWiki deployment

TWiki is primarily used at the workplace as a corporate wiki [12] to coordinate team activities, track projects, implement workflows [13] and as an Intranet Wiki. The TWiki community estimates 40,000 corporate wiki sites as of March 2007, and 20,000 public TWiki sites. [14]

TWiki customers include Fortune 500 such as Disney, Motorola, Nokia, NYU, Oracle Corporation and Yahoo!, as well as small and medium enterprises, [15] such as ARM Holdings [ dead link ] [16] and DHL. [17] TWiki has also been used to create collaborative internet sites, such as the City of Melbourne's FutureMelbourne wiki where citizens can collaborate on the future plan. [18]

Realization

TWiki is implemented in Perl. Wiki pages are stored in plain text files. Everything, including meta such as access control settings, are version controlled using RCS. RCS is optional since an all-Perl version control system is provided.

TWiki scales reasonably well even though it uses plain text files and no relational database to store page data. Many corporate TWiki installations have several hundred thousand pages and tens of thousands of users. Load balancing and caching can be used to improve performance on high traffic sites. [19]

TWiki has database features built into the engine. A TWiki Form [8] is attached to a page as meta data. This represents a database record. A set of pages that share the same type of form build a database table. A formatted search [20] with a SQL-like query [21] can be embedded into a page to construct dynamic presentation of data from multiple pages. This allows for building wiki applications and constitutes the TWiki's notion of a structured wiki.

Forks of TWiki

Forks of TWiki include:

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Download TWiki". twiki.org. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems". InformationWeek . 10 September 2007. TWiki is a structured wiki, which is a combination of a traditional freeform wiki and a more structured database
  3. ↑ Matt Asay (29 October 2008). "TWiki's hunt for cash fractures its community". CNET.
  4. ↑ "TWiki Watch: TWiki Contributors".
  5. 1 2 "Development of Foswiki and TWiki - get the facts". wikiring.com. 17 November 2009. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  6. ↑ R. Morin: TWiki and Foswiki: the road ahead
  7. ↑ "plugin packages". Twiki.org. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  8. 1 2 "TWiki Forms". Twiki.org. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  9. ↑ SEARCH variable, formatted search, SQL-like query search
  10. ↑ "Sample TWiki applications". Twiki.org. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  11. ↑ TWiki Contributors. "User Interface Localisation". twiki.org. Retrieved 1 March 2008.{{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  12. ↑ Paper on corporate wiki users (slides)
  13. ↑ "The wiki as online conveyor belt" section in BusinessWeek article Make Some Noise - How web 2.0 tools can help you communicate with customers more effectively Archived 5 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "Estimated number of TWiki installations". Twiki.org. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  15. ↑ "What do TWiki users say?". Twiki.net. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  16. ↑ "Case Study: Wikis give ARM Holdings a leg-up". The Wall Street Journal. Market Watch. 24 January 2007. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  17. ↑ "TWiki success story of DHL Packstation". Twiki.org. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  18. ↑ Future of Melbourne City Plan
  19. ↑ "TWiki Scalability". Twiki.org. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  20. ↑ "FormattedSearch". Twiki.org. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  21. ↑ "QuerySearch". Twiki.org. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  22. ↑ Thoeny, Peter; Tom Barton (31 October 2008). "Relaunch TWiki.org Project". twiki.org. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
  23. ↑ "Why this fork?". Foswiki. 31 January 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
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