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A TWiki site is an easy-to-use, full-featured open communications environment:

  • people anywhere on the Web or on an intranet can meet
  • rich Web text, images, and online multimedia are easily shared
  • documents and other files can be uploaded and downloaded
  • all users need is a Web browser and any available network connection

TWiki is the most widely used wiki behind corporate firewalls. The TWiki open source enterprise collaboration platform gets downloaded more than 10,000 times a month. It is a StructuredWiki and pioneered the concept of wiki as an application platform. TWiki is typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. Over 300 extensions are available for download.

TWiki is an UNUSUAL Web-based collaboration platform

There's no doubt that, to most people, TWiki at first seems almost the opposite of how the Web and online communications "normally" work. Why?

  • TWiki operates like a whiteboard for the Web - it lets you and all other users write, place pictures and post links, anywhere on any page.
  • Not only that, everyone can EDIT anything, anywhere on a page.
  • At first, this may seem "too" open - it soon becomes second-nature, allowing you the freedom to edit and update the way you want to.

TWiki is a powerful Web enhancement...

  • TWiki's parsing engine is written in Perl. It reads a text file, and converts TWiki shorthand into standard HTML, on the fly. The point is to:
  • make adding and editing text simple
  • let you find information fast (WebSearch)

TWiki provides an intuitive way for people to meet and collaborate, that aspires to the Zen ideals known as WabiSabi. It finds beauty in the imperfect and ephemeral and constantly evolving. (When it comes down to it, that's all you need.)

The bad news?Although Perl is more secure than PHP applications, Perl applications are harder to install than PHP applications.

The worse news?TWiki is a really rich environment, but it's a pain to install. And you cannot install it with Fantastico.

The great news?We'll install the TWiki software for you. It runs nicely in either of our plans. We give you tons of space, and tons of bandwidth, so you won't outgrow your plan soon, and we're here, 24x7, to give you all the help you need.