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TWiki
TWiki logo.png
Original author(s) Peter Thoeny
Developer(s) TWiki development team
Initial release July 23, 1998 (1998-07-23)[1]
Stable release

6.1.0  (July 16, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-07-16))

[±]
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!

Further reading

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Appendix A: TWiki Development Time-line". twiki.org. http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiHistory. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  2. Asay, Matt (29 October 2008). "TWiki's hunt for cash fractures its community". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10078682-16.html. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  3. Norris, Will (4 November 2008). "TWiki Watch: TWiki Contributors". foswiki.org. http://foswiki.org/Community/TWikiWatchTWikiContributors. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  4. Ulrich, Andre (17 November 2009). "Development of Foswiki and TWiki - Get the Facts". WikiRing. http://blog.wikiring.com/Blog/BlogEntry36. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  5. Morin, Rich (12 December 2008). "TWiki and Foswiki: the road ahead". Rich Morin. http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog/archives/001653.html. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  6. "Main Features of TWiki". AG Softwaretechnik. https://softech.informatik.uni-kl.de/TWiki/MainFeatures. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  7. "TWiki Success Stories". twiki.org. http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStories. Retrieved 10 November 2012.