TWiKi : Web-based collaboration tool

If you have problems communicating with your team or sub-ordinates.

If you are a CEO who is facing constrains in communicating your corporate missions and messages to your team.

If you are having problems with collaboration within your organizations (business), you may want to try TWiKi.

Describe in one sentence:

TWiki is a flexible, powerful, secure, yet simple web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base or any other groupware tool on either an intranet or on the Internet.

Check out the brief summary.

System Requirements:

TWiki is file based and doesn’t use a database. Backup of data involves backing up of file folders such as the “data” folder. (Other folders are not critical)

It also uses some Linux functions such as “grep” for searching.

More about system requirements.

Documentations and Users guide:

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WebHome


Used by Yahoo Software Development:

Check out this link about Yahoo-tWiKi.

other companies using it include Walt Disney, BT, SAP, Motorola, EPIC Games


Key features:

• Multi-users
  
• Grouping and security
  
• Topics changes notification
  
• RSS service for topics and changes notification.
  
• Statistic monitoring
  
• Topic management:
  
  
  • History viewing (changes monitoring)
    
  • Mother and child relationships (Using the “more topic actions”)
  
  
• Custom forms
  
• Plugins
  
  • Spreadsheet
    
  • Comment
    
  • Blacklist
    
  • Chart
    
  • EditTable
    
  • Gauge
    
  • GoogleAjaxSearch
    
  • Tagging
    
  • Table
    
  • Wysiwyg
    
  • Slideshow
    
  • Smiles
  
  
• Many more.

Web differences:

TWiki is organized into units called webs. Each web is a collaboration area for specific purposes. Unlimited web can be created such as "Sales and Marketing", "management", "R & D" and etc.

• Main – Home page, managing users, groups and access control.
  
• Sandbox – Experimenting web in unrestricted manner. (creating new topics)
  
• TWiki - The place to learn about TWiki features, documentations listing, perform TWiki system maintenance as well as creating a new web and preference settings.
  

TWiki for Windows:

TWiki even though is based on Linux, Perl and Apache, it offers two major versions for Windows users.

First of all, check out this link.

And it may be possible to configure TWiki on IIS but it is not proven, check out the following on permutations or options.

Ideally, the TWiKi team recommends either:

1. TWiKiWindowsPersonal (standard edition)

• Single user
  
• Easy to install
  
• No frills
  
• Light weight

2. or TWiKiVMDebianStable (Enterprise edition)

• Multi-users
  
• More things (site-permission, access control) to configure and install
  
• Heavy weight

It is fun!!