TWiki

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For the character, see Twiki.

TWiki is a Wiki program which runs (serves as a platform for) certain wikis which are called TWikiSites. TWiki enables simple form-based web applications, without programming, and granular access control (though it can also operate in the classic 'no authentication' mode). Other enhancements include configuration variables, embedded searches, server side includes, file attachments and a plugin API that has spawned over 200 plugins to link into databases, create charts, sort tables, write spreadsheets, make drawings, track Extreme Programming projects and so on. The main scripts are written in Perl.

TWiki now has a modern look and feel with its default 'skin'. It is fully skinnable and can be used to create modern-looking Wiki sites. It includes reasonably good support for Internationalization ('I18N'), with support for UTF-8 URLs and planned support for UTF-8.

The ease of its revision control and the availability of Access control lists makes TWiki especially suited for corporate wiki sites.

There are several wiki engines available online.

TWiki is capitalized unusually to deliberately distinguish it from Twiki, which is a character from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series). They are both pronounced identically, however.

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Major features

Revision control - every change ever made to a page can be tracked (uses Revision Control System)
Fine-grained access control by user groups
Dynamic content generation by TWiki variables
No database is needed (stored as text files)
Customizable sidebar, topbar, and bottom bar
Dozens of plugins
Structured information can be captured using forms

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