• This web contains the official documentation of the
TWiki Release 4.0.2, code named
DakarRelease. It is a read-only web for reference.
• This is an older release, see
TWiki-6.1 for the latest release documentation.
A WikiTopic is one unit of information in a T/Wiki web. It is more or less a universal term in the world of Wikis. Each WikiTopic is displayed as one Web page in your browser. While debate swirls in high circles of TWiki development as to whether a
topic should simply be called a
page, there is a good case for the distinction:
- a WikiTopic has a distinct WikiWord title that defines it; a Web page doesn't
- a topic's content is self-contained, doesn't spill over onto other topics; a Web page can continue a subject, book-like, across many pages
- particularly in TWiki, a topic has an array of features that make it distinct - attachments, relationships to other topics, classification data, independent revision control, and so on; a Web page has none of that
A
topic is used by TWiki to generate a regular Web page.