TWiki - A FREE Web Based Collaboration Tool - New version
May 4th, 21:55 UTC
The tool allows you to set up a
dynamic intranet site and a knowledge base; manage documents
and collaborate with your community by using just a web browser.
TWiki announced a new version of it's popular collaboration
tool on Monday 01 May 2000. The tool allows you to set up a
dynamic intranet site and a knowledge base; manage documents
and collaborate with your community by using just a web browser.
TWiki ( http://TWiki.SourceForge.net/ ) looks and feels like a normal Intranet or Internet
web site. However it also has an Edit link at the bottom of
every web page, everybody can change a page or add content.
TWiki is a CGI script written in Perl. It takes text input,
hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly.
Features include automatic link generation, full text search,
page revision control, page locking, email notification of
changes, file attachments to web pages, user preferences and
more. TWiki depends on Unix, Perl 5, RCS and a web server
with CGI support like Apache.
"TWiki is designed to eliminate the 'one webmaster syndrome'
where intranet content is outdated and insufficient" said
Peter Thoeny, the author of TWiki. "Empowering employees to
make changes to the intranet, combined with a peer review
of content makes sure that content is up to date and accurate.
Some major companies in the telecommunication and consumer
product industries depend on TWiki to have a smooth
information flow between the corporate offices."
"TWiki also allows you to categorize and classify text. This
is an important feature to group pages of similar context
and to take actions based on the category, for example to
automatically generate public FAQs from a subset of the
intranet content."
"Peter's message prompted me to revisit TWiki and boy, is
it powerful" said Jon Udell,
Byte Magazine's former executive editor. "Among other things,
TWiki eases one of the concerns about classic Wiki, which is
that the radically egalitarian "edit this page" scheme leaves
no change log. TWiki includes powerful revision support.
Every change leaves a footprint, and you can follow these
easily and effectively." (http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000427S0001)
The new TWiki version 01 May 2000 includes site-level, web-level
and user-level preferences; statistics about access and content
contributions; new variables like %SEARCH{"str" ...}% for
inline search; and better security with taint checking
(perl -T option).
TWiki is Open Source and is available for download from the
TWiki web-site.
For more information, contact:
Peter Thoeny, Peter@Thoeny.com
Nicholas Lee, nj.lee@plumtree.co.nz
http://TWiki.SourceForge.net/
(Submitted by Peter Thoeny of TWiki)
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