Question

I'm just starting a new TWiki. I like all the functionality that it has, but the out-of-the-box installation just has so much stuff! There are several different webs, each with long and complex home pages, groups, offices, forms, etc, etc. I just want to create a simple clean wiki with all that hidden from view, and only use it as it becomes necessary. I find it all confusing and distracting.

Has anyone devised a kind of minimal TWiki which has as little of that stuff as possible? What is it safe for me to remove? With in-wiki configuration, I am reluctant to remove pages in case I break something.

Environment

-- MalcolmRyan - 24 Jun 2004

Answer

The approach that I take is to define MAINWEB (in TWiki.cfg) to be a new web that I create, and to hide the default webs from my users by not mentioning them on the skin that I use. That way the installed topics are still there, but they do not intrude on the wiki.

-- SvenDowideit - 24 Jun 2004

StartWithACleanSlate has a recipe for creating a minimal twiki.

-- MattWilkie - 24 Jun 2004