Peter Thoeny
Peter Thoeny
Developer(s) | Peter Thoeny |
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Initial release | July 23, 1998 (1998-07-23) |
Stable release | |
Preview release | None (None) [±] [33] |
Repository |
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Written in | Perl |
Type | Wiki |
License | GPL |
Website | twiki.org [35] |
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.
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]
Developer(s) | Peter Thoeny |
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Initial release | July 23, 1998 (1998-07-23) |
Stable release | |
Preview release | None (None) [±] [33] |
Repository |
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Written in | Perl |
Type | Wiki |
License | GPL |
Website | twiki.org [35] |
Major features
Revision control - complete audit trail, also for meta data such as attachments and access control settings
Fine-grained access control - restrict read/write/rename on site level, web level, page level based on user groups
Extensible TWiki markup language
TinyMCE based WYSIWYG editor
Dynamic content generation with TWiki variables
Forms and reporting - capture structured content, report on it with searches embedded in pages
Built in database - users can create wiki applications using the TWiki Markup Language
Skinnable user interface
RSS/Atom feeds and e-mail notification
Over 400 Extensions and 200 Plugins
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
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 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[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.
TWiki release history
1998-07-23: Initial version, based on JosWiki, an application created by Markus Peter and Dave Harris[22][23]
2000-05-01: TWiki Release 1 May 2000
2000-12-01: TWiki Release 1 December 2000
2001-09-01: TWiki Release 1 September 2001
2001-12-01: TWiki Release 1 December 2001 ("Athens")
2003-02-01: TWiki Release 1 February 2003 ("Beijing")
2004-09-01: TWiki Release 1 September 2004 ("Cairo")
2006-02-01: TWiki Release 4.0.0 ("Dakar")
2007-01-16: TWiki Release 4.1.0 ("Edinburgh")
2008-01-22: TWiki Release 4.2.0 ("Freetown")
2009-09-02: TWiki Release 4.3.2 ("Georgetown")
2010-06-10: TWiki Release 5.0 ("Helsinki")
2011-08-20: TWiki Release 5.1 ("Istanbul")
2013-10-14: TWiki Release 6.0.0 ("Jerusalem")
2018-07-16: TWiki Release 6.1.0 ("Kampala")
Forks of TWiki
Forks of TWiki include: