TWiki Web, a Popular Web Based Collaboration and Knowledge
Base Tool - New Version
Dec 12th, 21:15 UTC
TWiki Web 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.
San Jose, Tuesday 12 Dec 2000: TWiki announced a new version
of it's popular collaboration tool. TWiki Web looks and feels
like a normal Intranet or Internet web site. In addition,
there is an Edit link on every page to change or create
content. The tool is a Perl CGI script that takes text
input, hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly.
Features include automatic link generation, full text search,
page revision control, authorization based on groups, email
notification of changes, file attachments to web pages, and more.
Get more details at
http://TWiki.org/ and in the
feature article of the Web Techniques magazine,
Corporate
Collaboration With TWiki.
"TWiki Web is designed to eliminate the 'one webmaster syndrome'
where intranet content is outdated and insufficient" said
Peter Thoeny, the author of TWiki Web. "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.
Many major companies in the telecommunication and consumer
product industries depend on TWiki Web to streamline the
information flow between the corporate offices."
"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."
"We are using TWiki very successfully in a distributed
environment" said David Attwood, System Architect at Ultra
SBS, a large UK based defence organization, "initial user
reactions were 'so what' now it's the most popular tool in
our shared data environment!"
The new TWiki version 01 Dec 2000 includes, among other
enhancements, fine grained access control with authorization
based on groups, advanced search features, and some security
fixes.
TWiki 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.org/
(Submitted by Peter Thoeny of TWiki)
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