• Name: C. Jones
• Email: cjones@coredataPLEASENOSPAM.net
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My Links

• WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki
• Sandbox web to try out TWiki
• CrJonesSandbox just for me

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 17
• Style of text edit box. width: 99% for full window width (default), width: auto to disable.
  • Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width: 99%
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE =

Related topics

• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.

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Twiki evaluation...

Keevin, I've been looking at Twiki and Shawn has shown me an installation of it separate from what is available on the site.

Twiki is a very good document organization system. It's based on Linux, Apache, and RCS. It uses PERL scripts to execute its main program logic, which are highly customizable and rewritable without recompiling. Despite being an intepreted language, PERL is very fast. Because it's an interperated language, it's highly portable. It also has a HUGE support community, making finding extra code easy and practical.

Twiki supports document revision and allows users to make changes and then log those changes. It has a full text search of HTML and Text Documents.

Unfortuneately, it does not natively support editing or searching of PDF documents, Word Documents, Visio Diagrams, or Excel Spreadsheets. A plugin exists that allows Twiki to display PDF documents, but Twiki will search them by keyword rather than the text they contain.

Of course that doesn't preclude us from linking Word, Visio, or Excel documents into Twiki. The system is set up with that in mind. It won't perform revision control on them, however. So far as I know no software or plugins yet exist that work with Twiki to do revision control on Word Documents, either.

What would converting our intranet site to Twiki entail?

Installation of Twiki is trivial, but requires a Linux/Apache environment. (RCS is Linux only, so far as I know.) This precludes us from installing it on our current intranet server. We would need a new server with approximately the same kind of hardware Peach is currently running.

Once installed, we'd have to convert our entire document base to HTML to take advantage of Twiki's revision control features. Twiki has a very elegant in-browser editor