TWiki

TWiki
Original author(s)	Peter Thoeny
Developer(s)	TWiki development team
Initial release	July 23, 1998
Stable release	6.1.0 (July 16, 2018; 5 years ago) [±]
Preview release	none [±]
Written in	Perl
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multi-lingual
Type	Wiki software
License(s)	GNU General Public License v2.0
Website	twiki.org

TWiki is free open-source enterprise collaboration and application platform.

Product history

The TWiki project was founded by Peter Thoeny in 1998 as an open-source wiki-based application platform. Releases of TWiki were versioned using date of release up until February 1, 2006, when versioning changed to a version number, beginning with 4.0.^[1] In October 2008, Thoeny's company TWiki.net assumed full control over the TWiki project^[2] while much of the developer community^[3]^[4] forked off to join the Foswiki project.^[5]

Features

Features of TWiki include^[6]:

auto-linking
built-in query tools
e-mail support and integration
document management
version control
user-based access
customizable interface
statistics generation
extensibility

Hardware/software requirements

Server installation requirements for Foswiki include:

Perl 5.8.0 or higher
RCS 5.7 or higher with GNU diff 2.7 or higher (optional)
fgrep, egrep, df, patch, zip, and cron or a cron equivalent
a supported web server

For more details, see the installation guide.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Numerous videos demoing TWiki can be found on the TWiki site.

Screenshots of TWiki can be found on [twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiScreenshots their site].

Entities using TWiki

Examples of entities using TWiki include^[7]:

AS Informatik AG; British Telecommunications; CERN; Cingular Wireless; Disney; Helsinki Institute Of Physics Technology Programme; Honeybee Robotics; Michelin China; Morgan Stanley; Motorola; Novell; SAP; SecureWorks; Texas Instruments; Yahoo!