Some TWikis that we can actually look at:

• https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/
• http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/
• http://web.fm/twiki/bin/view/
• http://tesi.fabio.web.cs.unibo.it/
• https://wiki.hip.fi/twiki/bin/view/
• http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/
• http://www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bin/view/
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/
• http://osg.ivdgl.org/twiki/bin/view
• https://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view
• http://ctieware.eng.monash.edu.au/twiki/bin/view/
• http://lathi.net/twiki-bin/view
• http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/
• http://www.federation.org.au/twiki/bin/view/
• http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/bin/view
• http://wilg.mit.edu/bin/view/
• http://www.resc.rdg.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/
• http://wiki.mizar.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/
• http://www.bcs-oops.org.uk/cgi-bin/view/
• http://asapframework.org/wiki/bin/view/

I wasn't about to copy every single one. Be nice if we could persuade google to give us a list of the URLs alone.

Since googling TWikiUsers in the URL seems to be the best way to search, both because the topic can't be hidden from view (I think) and the odds of it being the same on more than one site are slim, here are some results from the reported English hits. (I've skipped some TLDs that have a tiny number of sites.)

The google search on the topic TWikiUsers omits edit, rdiff, raw, oops, skin, rev, since those are variations of the same topic.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&client=safari&rls=en&q=inurl%3ATWikiUsers+-inurl%3Aedit+-inurl%3Ardiff+-inurl%3Araw+-inurl%3Aoops+-inurl%3Askin+-inurl%3Arev&btnG=Search

Of course, this only shows sites that are visible to search engines, undoubtedly omitting virtually all corporate sites.

-- Contributors: MeredithLesly

Discussion

I found quite a few more incidences when I Googled "ATasteOfTWiki", like 500,000+! At first it stops at 4 pages because, after all, it's finding the same page each time. But if you ask for the full results, you see they are (mostly) all unique sites (with the obvious exception of the first 4 which are on TWiki.org). Thanks for prompting me to do this search, Meredith - it's interesting to see all fields TWiki's being used in!

-- LynnwoodBrown - 18 May 2006

Which made me think: allintitle:!TWikiUsers is probably a better choice, since presumably none of them will be the same.

-- MeredithLesly - 18 May 2006

Sigh. I was really hoping to find a lot more non-corporate use, as my interests lie mostly in the educational field. But the responses of the teachers on the project I'm doing for Harvard are quite promising, with more interest in doing more than just simple text editing than might be expected. So we shall see. fingers crossed

-- MeredithLesly - 20 May 2006

Instead of listing the sites here it might be better to run a report in the TWikiInstallation directory, and feed more data into the directory.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jun 2006

I think I suggested that somewhere or other, but that involves someone writing a script and it being run on the twiki.org machine, neither of which I can do. So go for it, Peter.

-- MeredithLesly - 01 Jun 2006

I'm afraid no script will help fill the really interesting pieces (i.e. Country, Installed by, Customized, Type of Use and Used by/for). - So some handywork needs to be done under all circumstances.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 01 Jun 2006

So go for it, Steffen!

• Thanks! - Now that's a motivational spirit I'd like to see a lot more of -- SteffenPoulsen - 02 Jun 2006

-- MeredithLesly - 01 Jun 2006

• http://www.hinnispace.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/WebHome
• http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/bin/view/MuscleWP6/WebHome
• http://wiki.soe.ucsc.edu/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• http://opensource.adobe.com/twiki/bin/view/AdobeSource/WebHome
• http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• http://twiki.i3s.unice.fr/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/wiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• http://mobius.inria.fr/twiki/bin/view/Mobius/WebHome
• http://twiki.wesleyan.edu/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome

Here are some more Should we make a table? For more Educational sites try this Google search Google .edu

-- CraigMeyer - 02 Jun 2006

I'd like to see more sites listed on the TWikiInstallation directory. The main motivation is not so much PR, but to find out how different groups are using TWiki for diverse things.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Jun 2006

Yes, it would be best if they went into the TWikiInstallation directory. I probably would've done that if I had been aware of it at when I did the searches. As SP notes, the hard part (other than figuring out how to get just a list of URLs) is to fill out as many of the rest of the fields as possible.

Look carefully at my search string, btw, which eliminates the literally thousands of duplicates. (The number of duplicates suggests that we need to give a sample robot.txt file to help prevent them.)

The form also needs (at least) a third category, so that sites that appear to be gone can be marked as SiteNeedInvestigating or some such. When I was going through the table to make sure it was accurate, I would've marked many of the sites that seemed to be gone as that rather than SiteObsolete. That assumes, of course, that someone will spend the time to trrack down the new location, if any, but it's better than marking them obsolete unless it's obvious that they are, and it would remedy the problem of dead links in the table. (It would also help avoid marking a site obsolete when, in fact, it's just moved, as I did a couple of times.)

-- MeredithLesly - 03 Jun 2006