• Codev
  • The new "Category" scheme allows to find related topics easier, e.g., CategoryCgiAccelerators
  • TWikiPatches
  • Portal into SearchEnhancements
    • SearchWithAnd
    • FormattedSearchWithNesting
    • SearchScriptWithFormattedSearch
    • Alternative search methods are at PhotonSearch, DirectSearch. An interesting use of search in meta fields is shown in TWikiInstallations.
    • FormattedSearchFormnameVariable
    • PhotonSearch
    • SearchEngineSwishEAddOn uses swish-e to accelerate search and index topics/attachments

• • Editing other than in the edit box: AppletBasedEditor, UseHtmlEditorOfChoice, EasyEditor, EditorDaemonAddOn, EditDaemonWithGVimIntegration, Integration with External editor
  • TouchGraph
  • InternetExplorerSidebar
  • TopicDropdownbox
  • ShorterURLs
  • SingleStepSave
  • TwikiBatchProcessing
  • MegaTWiki
  • Pointers to many issues re distribution: DistributedTWiki, OfflineWiki, ReadOnlyOfflineWiki, ReadWriteOfflineWiki, WebsitePublishing, NonWebAccessToWiki, TWikiWithCVS, TWikiXML, TWikiWithClearCase
  • DataHandling
  • CPAN:WWW::Mechanize is a set of perl routines that allow to develop bots
  • Discussion and example of using frames in wiki
  • TWikiSyntaxDiscussByCharacter discussion of TWiki syntax
  • Discussions of distributed wiki: BackupScripts, TWikiIRC
  • Trick to show topic in pure text format, example http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/RawModeTextPlain?skin=text&contenttype=text/plain&raw=debug, see SpecialSecretSkinNames

• Install?
  • TWikiGuestNotSet has patch to set nonauthenticated user to TWikiGuest.
  • PerTopicWebNotifyReports or YetAnotherNotifySystem
  • ModPerl provides much faster performance on windows
  • SettingParentTopicToNone
  • TableWidthAndColumnWidth
  • SavemultiCgiScript
  • NumberedHeadersAndLists and ImprovedOutlines, as alternatives to ExplicitNumberingPlugin
  • WikiSyntaxForDefinitionLists allows for nicer syntax of definitions. Maybe extend this to not start a new line before the body of the definition.
  • HtmlToTWikiConverter
  • patch to hide text area in edit if %HIDETEXTAREA% tag is present (also one for sequential topic name creation).
  • ReadTemplatesFromUserTopics
  • LessIntrusiveForms has some code to generate form from template

• Plugins and addons
  • SimpleTableEntryUsingForms is a form based means of editing tables
  • MultiSearchAddon
  • BugzillaLinkPluginDev
  • MotorolaExtensionsToTWiki
  • Web services
    • WebServicesAddOn
    • There is a appendContent routine (http://twiki.org/p/pub/Plugins/MailInAddOn/MailIn.pm, search for appendContent) in the MailInAddOn? that adds a block of text to a topic. I suggest something like it be used for all the SubmitTopic? ?* routines. Perhaps it can be added to TWiki::Func and exposed through the WebServicesAddOn
    • Topics discussed by working groups on intranets tend to be confidential. This means that strict access control is necessary. WebServices and any other off server services (translators, spelling checkers, ...) are not acceptable if they could not be controlled by the same access control mechanism and do not follow the same access and data handling policies as the original server. For this reason we blocked the access to translation engines like babelfish to not allow the leakage of any company proprietary information. Same for other WebServices. (HubertWeikert)
    • SubmitTopicByEmail
    • MailInAddOn
    • logbuch script
  • TWikiDrawSvgPluginDev
  • ConditionalPlugin
  • Javascript
    • MakeAllTablesSortable

• TWiki as data base
  • ADatabaseCalledTWiki
  • MetaSearch
  • SearchEngineSwishEAddOn uses swish-e to accelerate search and index topics/attachments

• Performance measurements
  • echo|time ./view > /dev/null
  • skin=normal|time ./view

• Discussion on changes
  • OptionallyHideWebForm has references to form related changes

• Presentations
  • TWikiPresentation07Jan2004

• Documentation
  • TWikiCourseOutlineExample2
  • PerlTips
  • CpanReadme
  • Development process
    • Core
      • DevelopBranch
      • HowDoesTheDEVELOPBranchWork
      • SVN
      • old version was on SourceForge
    • Plugins
      • UsingCVSForPluginsDevelopment (CVS repository, Instructions for using CVS on source forge)
  • TWikiPatches
  • Info on profiling in ExaminingPerformance and BetterPerformance
  • FormattedTWikiFormDataInTopicText
  • PreventRenderingOfHtmlFormFields discusses tricky escapes in search formatting
  • TWikiOn points to installation tips for various platforms
  • UpgradingProcedures describes a procedure of upgrading an existing twiki by a new release
  • InterSiteLinkRules discusses available rules
  • AlternateTextFormatting provides some hints on where to get started for changing the formatting
  • Protect text from being interpreted by twiki is discussed at SearchFormattingParsingBroken, DisableWikiWordLinks, DisablingWikiWordLinks
  • StepByStepRenderingOrder tries to order the sequence of things twiki goes through when rendering a page.
    • MetaDataRendering discusses rendering of metadata in text.
  • Interactive regular expression coach
  • Discussion of how to get at CSS from topic with new patch
  • Scale the size of attached image: TWikiPhotoAlbum

• Other wikis
  • TWikiOnWebHostingSites
  • PublicTWikis is a listing of all public twikis
  • Examples of skins
  • Emacs wiki
  • Organizational patterns
  • EvEm not a Wiki anymore, but this topic has a number of interesting enhancements
  • LynnwoodBrown
  • TWikiOnWebHostingSites
  • A wiki with table enhancements
  • Koala Skin live site
  • Pattern Skin
  • Flexible Skin
  • O'wiki a non-friendly twiki branch
  • "Canoncial list" of wiki engines
  • http://www.flexwiki.com/; sources are at GotDotNet

• Dreamhost guides
  • Richard Donkin's twiki as an example
    • testenv
  • Setup instructions
  • TorbenGB's instructions
  • Explanation of using SpamAssassin to filter emails

• Not wiki but related
  • TemplateToolkit
  • Perl wiki module
  • Another perl wiki module

• Other communities
  • Everything2
  • http://twiki.skyloom.com/bin/view.pl/Know/KnowledgeManagement contains many links to knowledge management issues

-- ThomasWeigert - 18 May 2002

Thomas, I have not looked at the code, but where possible use only the official TWiki::Func interface to avoid "gotchas". Do not assume that undocumented functions will not change, in fact we have the largest code refactor ever in the current DEVELOP branch.

Although not pretty, but if you must use undocumented functions or variables you still can make the Plugin work for several TWiki versions. Do that with conditional code. Here is an example of the InterwikiPlugin? :

if( $TWiki::Plugins::VERSION >= 1.020 ) {
    $upperAlpha    = TWiki::Func::getRegularExpression("upperAlpha");
    $mixedAlphaNum = TWiki::Func::getRegularExpression("mixedAlphaNum");
} else {
    $upperAlpha    = $TWiki::upperAlpha;
    $mixedAlphaNum = $TWiki::mixedAlphaNum;
}

Here is an untested code snippet for your encode challenge:

# =========================
sub _encodeSpecialChars
{
    if( $TWiki::Plugins::VERSION >= 1.020 ) { # Not sure about the version number, please check!!
        TWiki::Render::encodeSpecialChars( @_ );
    } else {
        TWiki::encodeSpecialChars( @_ );
    }
}

But, mind you, the current DevelopBranch does not have a TWiki::Render::encodeSpecialChars anymore. So you would have to chace that one again...

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Mar 2005