TWiki

TWiki is a complex system, highly-recommended for environments with lots of users, all able to edit pages, add new info and share it with their collaborators and team members.

As you can see, TWiki is a powerful solution when it comes to powering Intranets, knowledgebases, FAQ sites, project management, file sharing, and many other more.

Twiki has reached quite a mature stage in its development process, being an enterprise-ready solution, even if still an open-source solution.

The companies that have at one point or another used and some of them still use TWiki features big names like Google, PayPal, EA, Facebook, Sony, Cisco, FedEx, HP, Amazon, IBM, Symantec, Nokia, Motorola, eBay, Zone-Alarm and the list could go on with plenty more.

As for technical specifications, TWiki was written in Perl and is a normal cgi-bin script.

What is new in this release:

• Usability Enhancements:
• Add dashboards to Web home topics
• Categorize TWiki variables & add TWiki Variables wizard
• Upgrade to TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to version 3.5.8
• New TOPICTITLE variable for non-WikiWord topic titles
• Show topic title in square bracket links using [[+TopicName]] syntax
• Icon bullet lists: Specify any TWiki doc graphics icon as a bullet
• WebSearch and WebChanges has now search result pagination
• WebChanges shows topic age instead of topic date
• Auto-discover TWikiForms, e.g. no need to set in WEBFORMS preferences setting
• Move change TWiki Form from edit screen to "more" screen
• Show link to older versions of attachments in attachment table
• Automatically link @Twitter handles
• Add comment section to new topic template
• Copy/clone topic function in more topic action screen
• Configurable signatures with profile pictures
• Open external links in new browser window or tab; show external link icon
• Drag and drop file attachments - PatternSkin to integrate DropzoneJSSkin - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Add drag and drop to change profile picture screen - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Scalability Enhancements:
• Read-only and mirror web support for distributed TWiki sites
• MetadataRepository for site metadata and web metadata to speed up operations across many webs
• Rename topic operation with option to not replace web internal references
• Rename web operation can cope with a large site and read-only/mirror webs
• Introducing web-level administrator for higher web autonomy; web specific WIKIWEBMASTER
• Support for multiple disk drives for data and pub directories
• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements:
• New EDITFORMFIELD variable to easily create custom forms to create/change topics with TWiki Forms
• Add rev parameter to FORMFIELD variable
• New combobox TWiki Form field type
• New ENTITY variable to entity encode content
• Add createdate, default, encode parameters to SEARCH variable
• SEARCH variable with sort by parent feature
• SEARCH variable extended to make results pagination possible
• SEARCH: Search with sort by multiple fields - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• SEARCH: Sort by parent breadcrumb - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Add encode, newline, nofinalnewline, allowanytype to INCLUDE variable
• Add subwebs and depth parameters to WEBLIST variable
• Add section parameter to ADDTOHEAD variable
• Add encode and decode functions to TWiki::Func
• Add LWP parameters to TWiki::Func::getExternalResource
• Conditional Skin based on group membership and other criteria
• Finer-control variable expansion in topic creation
• Add topic parameter to VAR variable to get settings defined in another topic
• Add raw parameter to INCLUDE variable to include a topic in the raw mode
• New csv encode type for ENCODE variable - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Security Enhancements:
• Support for an implicit "all users" group
• Empty DENY setting means undefined setting
• Dynamic access control (experimental)
• Upgrade support for secure email notification
• Restrict HTTP variable to not reveal certain header fields
• User masquerading to check if access restriction is working as expected for another user
• Disable XSS Protection for JavaScript
• Extensions Enhancements:
• Add new WatchlistPlugin to core and deprecate MailerContrib
• Add new TWikiDashboardAddOn to core distribution
• Add new ScrollBoxAddOn to core distribution
• Add new DatePickerPlugin to core and deprecate JSCalendarContrib
• Add new MovedSkin to core distribution
• SpreadSheetPlugin supports hash variables with new functions GETHASH(), HASH2LIST(), HASHCOPY(), HASHEACH(), HASHEXISTS(), HASHREVERSE(), LIST2HASH(), SETHASH(), SETMHASH()
• SpreadSheetPlugin adds new functions BIN2DEC(), DEC2BIN(), DEC2HEX(), DEC2OCT(), HEX2DEC(), OCT2DEC()
• SpreadSheetPlugin supports quoted parameters with '''triple quotes'''
• SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions ADDLIST(), GETLIST(), SETLIST() - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• SpreadSheetPlugin: FORMAT(CURRENY, ...) with support for currency symbol - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• SpreadSheetPlugin: Allow newlines and indent around functions and function parameters; allow newlines in triple-quoted strings - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• InterwikiPlugin to observe the links configuration parameter
• TagMePlugin with support for multiple tag namespaces
• PatternSkin: New hideInPrint CSS class to hide specific content from printing - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• PatternSkin: Show history and other topic actions in read-only skin mode - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• JQueryPlugin: JQTAB enhancements: Show blue link instead of red on hover over tab; make tab css overridable; remove dotted underline below tab; active tabs with gray gradient - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• WatchlistPlugin: Don't notify oneself when watching topics; set minor change when updating watchlist topic - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• WatchlistPlugin: Watch all topics in web and watch new topics in web; fix for mod_perl - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements:
• CGI Engine to be made Fast CGI compatible
• Empty IF condition to be regarded valid and false
• Add seconds to the timestamp in debug/log/warn
• Viewing topic text with variables expanded
• WEBLIST canmoveto and cancopyto
• Add viewRedirectHandler callback to plugins API
• No such topic, no such web, access denied are done right

What is new in version 6.0.1:

• Usability Enhancements:
• Add dashboards to Web home topics
• Categorize TWiki variables & add TWiki Variables wizard
• Upgrade to TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to version 3.5.8
• New TOPICTITLE variable for non-WikiWord topic titles
• Show topic title in square bracket links using [[+TopicName]] syntax
• Icon bullet lists: Specify any TWiki doc graphics icon as a bullet
• WebSearch and WebChanges has now search result pagination
• WebChanges shows topic age instead of topic date
• Auto-discover TWikiForms, e.g. no need to set in WEBFORMS preferences setting
• Move change TWiki Form from edit screen to "more" screen
• Show link to older versions of attachments in attachment table
• Automatically link @Twitter handles
• Add comment section to new topic template
• Copy/clone topic function in more topic action screen
• Configurable signatures with profile pictures
• Open external links in new browser window or tab; show external link icon
• Drag and drop file attachments - PatternSkin to integrate DropzoneJSSkin - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Add drag and drop to change profile picture screen - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Scalability Enhancements:
• Read-only and mirror web support for distributed TWiki sites
• MetadataRepository for site metadata and web metadata to speed up operations across many webs
• Rename topic operation with option to not replace web internal references
• Rename web operation can cope with a large site and read-only/mirror webs
• Introducing web-level administrator for higher web autonomy; web specific WIKIWEBMASTER
• Support for multiple disk drives for data and pub directories
• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements:
• New EDITFORMFIELD variable to easily create custom forms to create/change topics with TWiki Forms
• Add rev parameter to FORMFIELD variable
• New combobox TWiki Form field type
• New ENTITY variable to entity encode content
• Add createdate, default, encode parameters to SEARCH variable
• SEARCH variable with sort by parent feature
• SEARCH variable extended to make results pagination possible
• SEARCH: Search with sort by multiple fields - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• SEARCH: Sort by parent breadcrumb - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Add encode, newline, nofinalnewline, allowanytype to INCLUDE variable
• Add subwebs and depth parameters to WEBLIST variable
• Add section parameter to ADDTOHEAD variable
• Add encode and decode functions to TWiki::Func
• Add LWP parameters to TWiki::Func::getExternalResource
• Conditional Skin based on group membership and other criteria
• Finer-control variable expansion in topic creation
• Add topic parameter to VAR variable to get settings defined in another topic
• Add raw parameter to INCLUDE variable to include a topic in the raw mode
• New csv encode type for ENCODE variable - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Security Enhancements:
• Support for an implicit "all users" group
• Empty DENY setting means undefined setting
• Dynamic access control (experimental)
• Upgrade support for secure email notification
• Restrict HTTP variable to not reveal certain header fields
• User masquerading to check if access restriction is working as expected for another user
• Disable XSS Protection for JavaScript
• Extensions Enhancements:
• Add new WatchlistPlugin to core and deprecate MailerContrib
• Add new TWikiDashboardAddOn to core distribution
• Add new ScrollBoxAddOn to core distribution
• Add new DatePickerPlugin to core and deprecate JSCalendarContrib
• Add new MovedSkin to core distribution
• SpreadSheetPlugin supports hash variables with new functions GETHASH(), HASH2LIST(), HASHCOPY(), HASHEACH(), HASHEXISTS(), HASHREVERSE(), LIST2HASH(), SETHASH(), SETMHASH()
• SpreadSheetPlugin adds new functions BIN2DEC(), DEC2BIN(), DEC2HEX(), DEC2OCT(), HEX2DEC(), OCT2DEC()
• SpreadSheetPlugin supports quoted parameters with '''triple quotes'''
• SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions ADDLIST(), GETLIST(), SETLIST() - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• SpreadSheetPlugin: FORMAT(CURRENY, ...) with support for currency symbol - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• SpreadSheetPlugin: Allow newlines and indent around functions and function parameters; allow newlines in triple-quoted strings - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• InterwikiPlugin to observe the links configuration parameter
• TagMePlugin with support for multiple tag namespaces
• PatternSkin: New hideInPrint CSS class to hide specific content from printing - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• PatternSkin: Show history and other topic actions in read-only skin mode - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• JQueryPlugin: JQTAB enhancements: Show blue link instead of red on hover over tab; make tab css overridable; remove dotted underline below tab; active tabs with gray gradient - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• WatchlistPlugin: Don't notify oneself when watching topics; set minor change when updating watchlist topic - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• WatchlistPlugin: Watch all topics in web and watch new topics in web; fix for mod_perl - added in TWiki-6.0.1
• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements:
• CGI Engine to be made Fast CGI compatible
• Empty IF condition to be regarded valid and false
• Add seconds to the timestamp in debug/log/warn
• Viewing topic text with variables expanded
• WEBLIST canmoveto and cancopyto
• Add viewRedirectHandler callback to plugins API
• No such topic, no such web, access denied are done right

What is new in version 6.0.0:

• Usability Enhancements:
• Add dashboards to Web home topics
• Categorize TWiki variables & add TWiki Variables wizard
• Upgrade to TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to version 3.5.8
• New TOPICTITLE variable for non-WikiWord topic titles
• Show topic title in square bracket links using [[+TopicName]] syntax
• Icon bullet lists: Specify any TWiki doc graphics icon as a bullet
• WebSearch and WebChanges has now search result pagination
• WebChanges shows topic age instead of topic date
• Auto-discover TWikiForms, e.g. no need to set in WEBFORMS preferences setting
• Move change TWiki Form from edit screen to "more" screen
• Show link to older versions of attachments in attachment table
• Automatically link @Twitter handles
• Add comment section to new topic template
• Copy/clone topic function in more topic action screen
• Configurable signatures with profile pictures
• Open external links in new browser window or tab; show external link icon
• Scalability Enhancements:
• Read-only and mirror web support for distributed TWiki sites
• MetadataRepository for site metadata and web metadata to speed up operations across many webs
• Rename topic operation with option to not replace web internal references
• Rename web operation can cope with a large site and read-only/mirror webs
• Introducing web-level administrator for higher web autonomy; web specific WIKIWEBMASTER
• Support for multiple disk drives for data and pub directories
• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements:
• New EDITFORMFIELD variable to easily create custom forms to create/change topics with TWiki Forms
• Add rev parameter to FORMFIELD variable
• New combobox TWiki Form field type
• New ENTITY variable to entity encode content
• Add createdate, default, encode parameters to SEARCH variable
• SEARCH variable with sort by parent feature
• SEARCH variable extended to make results pagination possible
• Add encode, newline, nofinalnewline, allowanytype to INCLUDE variable
• Add subwebs and depth parameters to WEBLIST variable
• Add section parameter to ADDTOHEAD variable
• Add encode and decode functions to TWiki::Func
• Add LWP parameters to TWiki::Func::getExternalResource
• Conditional Skin based on group membership and other criteria
• Finer-control variable expansion in topic creation
• Add topic parameter to VAR variable to get settings defined in another topic
• Add raw parameter to INCLUDE variable to include a topic in the raw mode
• Security Enhancements:
• Support for an implicit "all users" group
• Empty DENY setting means undefined setting
• Dynamic access control (experimental)
• Upgrade support for secure email notification
• Restrict HTTP variable to not reveal certain header fields
• User masquerading to check if access restriction is working as expected for another user
• Disable XSS Protection for JavaScript
• Extensions Enhancements:
• Add new WatchlistPlugin to core and deprecate MailerContrib
• Add new TWikiDashboardAddOn to core distribution
• Add new ScrollBoxAddOn to core distribution
• Add new DatePickerPlugin to core and deprecate JSCalendarContrib
• Add new MovedSkin to core distribution
• SpreadSheetPlugin supports hash variables with new functions GETHASH(), HASH2LIST(), HASHCOPY(), HASHEACH(), HASHEXISTS(), HASHREVERSE(), LIST2HASH(), SETHASH(), SETMHASH()
• SpreadSheetPlugin adds new functions BIN2DEC(), DEC2BIN(), DEC2HEX(), DEC2OCT(), HEX2DEC(), OCT2DEC()
• SpreadSheetPlugin supports quoted parameters with '''triple quotes'''
• InterwikiPlugin to observe the links configuration parameter
• TagMePlugin with support for multiple tag namespaces
• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements:
• CGI Engine to be made Fast CGI compatible
• Empty IF condition to be regarded valid and false
• Add seconds to the timestamp in debug/log/warn
• Viewing topic text with variables expanded
• WEBLIST canmoveto and cancopyto

What is new in version 5.0.0:

• Security Enhancements:
• Configure script requires authentication to reduce exposure of internal system settings.
• The twiki root directory is no longer HTML doc enabled, reducing the odds of exposing data due to webserver misconfiguration.
• Usability Enhancements:
• New TopMenuSkin with pulldown menus for better usability and corporate/modern look&feel.
• Attach multiple files at once, useful when attaching many files.
• Pre-installed TagMePlugin, useful to tag topics to quickly access content in a large TWiki.
• Upgraded TinyMCEPlugin to latest TinyMCE 3.2.4.1 for better WYSIWYG editing experience.
• Open ID 2.0 integration, useful for public TWiki sites (separate download)
• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements:
• Pre-installed JQueryPlugin, adding a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
• Improvements to ENCODE, IF, URLPARAM, WEB and WEBLIST variables.
• Search Enhancements:
• Query syntax with array size, useful to query TWiki forms and attachments.
• Query syntax can be used in format parameter of search, giving more control over formatting.
• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements:
• Adding 51 new TWikiDocGraphics icons, and 11 updated icons.
• The TWiki doc graphics library is now aware of image size and is cached for speed.
• Plugin Enhancements:
• SpreadSheetPlugin: Improvements to $TIME() and $NOP() functions.
• HeadlinesPlugin: New touch parameter in HEADLINES variable to alert users via e-mail notification of news updates
• API: New TWiki::Func::buildWikiWord function