TWiki^TM - A Web Based Collaboration Platform

What is TWiki?

The TWiki web is a flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Developers can create new web applications based on a Plugin API.

How does it look like?

TWiki looks and feels like a normal Intranet or Internet web site. However it also has a Edit link at the bottom of every topic (web page), everybody can change a topic or add content by just using a browser.

We use TWiki at Wind River, the company I work for. However it is not visible from outside, because it is on an Intranet behind a firewall. TWiki is hosted and developed at the SourceForge web site at http://TWiki.org/. There you can surf and add/change content a to get an idea of how TWiki works. Start surfing at the WebHome topic.

How does it work?

TWiki is a cgi-bin script written in perl. It reads a text file, hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly.

Who is devloping TWiki?

I developed TWiki with help of other people. The change history is at TWikiHistory. TWiki is a Wiki clone and has it's root in JosWiki that was in use at the JOS (Java OS) web site

TWiki is further being developed at TWiki.org, and guess what, the TWiki.Codev web serves as the tool for collaboration on that.

Can I get the source code of TWiki?

TWiki is GPLed software. The Perl CGI source code and example templates are available for free. You can request the source from TWiki.org.