• Name: Nic McPhee
• Email:
• Company Name: University of Minnesota, Morris
• Company URL: http://www.mrs.umn.edu/~mcphee
• Country: USA
• Hear From: On-line searches for Wiki tools.

We've been using TWiki now for about a year to support our courses, and it's been incredibly successful. I've been meaning to write someting up about it, but just haven't found/made the time. Interested parties can check out

• Our primary wiki: http://tyvek.mrs.umn.edu/twiki/view/Main/WebHome
• A short "Why wiki?" outline for a presentation I gave to some faculty and staff about our experience. Most of this is old hat to the TWiki community, but the discussion of usage statistics and the value of a dynamic (=alive) vs. static (=dead) pages may be of interest.

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 100
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 25
• Default state of the link check box in the attach file page:
  • Set ATTACHLINKBOX =
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE =

Related topics

• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.