TWiki Advocacy for Public Sites

You can use this text if you want to promote TWiki for use on a public website:

TWiki is a flexible and powerful web-based collaboration platform that allows you to run a dynamic web site where the users are in control of the content. Users can freely create or change content from any Web browser, without requiring special browser Plugins. At its heart it is a Wiki system[1], but has outgrown its Wiki roots and is now a system to track project development, manage documents, share knowledge, and build groupware applications.

TWiki is mainly used behind corporate firewalls which includes major companies like Motorola, SAP, Sun Microsystems and the Walt Disney Internet Group. The TWiki Success Stories[2] give you an idea how it is being deployed.

Many public web sites such as IPCop Firewall[3], Sun Microsystems' Java.net Wiki[4] are also using TWiki. Browse the TWiki installation directory[5] to see if someone is already using TWiki for something related what you have in mind.

Features include automatic link generation, full text search, authorization based on groups, Web form handling, email notification of changes, file attachments to Web pages, revision control of pages and attachments, and more. The server-side TWiki Plugins API provides developers with a simple way to build new groupware applications. A large number of plugins and add-ons enhance the platform with action item tracking, calendaring, charting, database access, two-way RSS news feeds, LDAP connectivity, spreadsheets, XSL transformations, XP tracking, HTML publishing, and more.

The GPLed TWiki software and over 100 Plugins can be downloaded from the TWiki.org web site at http://TWiki.org/.

TWiki has an active developer community[6], good documentation[7] and a helpful support forum[8] where you can get help and advise on your specific needs.

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[1] - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
[2] - http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStories
[3] - http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome
[4] - http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Main/WebHome
[5] - http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiInstallation
[6] - http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebHome
[7] - http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WebHome
[8] - http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebHome

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-- PeterThoeny - 20 Apr 2004

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And most important, use it to spread the word smile

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Apr 2004

I'm not sure I like the word "outgrown" as it makes it sound as if there is not much wiki left in twiki. The only other word I have been able to come up with in its place is "transcended", which sounds a little of full of itself. wink Maybe somebody else has a better thesaurus than I?

-- MattWilkie - 26 Apr 2004

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