TWiki is a Web-based collaboration tool

• A TWiki site is a simple, satisfying, full-featured open communication environment:
  • people anywhere online can meet
  • rich Web text, images, online multimedia are easily shared
  • documents and other files can be uploaded and downloaded
  • everything works through a regular Web browser

TWiki is written in Perl...

• TWiki's parsing engine reads a text file, hyperlinks it, and converts TWiki shorthand into standard HTML, on the fly. The point is to:
  • make editing text extremely simple (to see how simple, click on the Edit link at the bottom of the page)
  • let you find information fast (WebSearch).

• In addition to being quick, as a meeting and colloboration space, TWiki aspires to the Zen ideals known as WabiSabi. Zen finds beauty in the imperfect and ephemeral. When it comes down to it, that's all you need.

• TWiki is one of many WikiWikiClones, based on the original Wiki Wiki Web, built by Wiki:WardCummingham.

"TWiki" stands for...

• Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The shuttle at Honolulu Airport is called the wiki wiki bus, which is where the original Wiki web got its name.
• TWiki is short for TakeFive Wiki. (It was later discovered that Twiki is also the name of an AI robot that co-starred in the Buck Rogers... movie and TV show from 1979 - its head is in the logo.)

Selected TWiki Topics...

• TWikiEnhancementRequests is the place to add your new feature requests.
• TWikiPlannedFeatures lists of approved additions to future TWiki versions.
• TWikiHistory timelines TWiki's development.
• TWikiDocumentation is the complete reference manual.
• TWikiPages? tells you how to do administrative things, like renaming topics.
• WikiCulture looks at the unique type of collaboration Wiki systems offer.
• WikiReferences links to articles and books about collaboration and Wiki technology.

NOTE: TWiki automatically signs new pages with your WikiName when TWiki is running on an intranet. If your TWiki installation doesn't require a log-in, TWiki treats all contributors the same - everyone gets the same username: TWikiGuest.

TWiki is trademarked to Peter Thoeny, originator and lead developer.

• TWiki's home address is http://twiki.org/.
• Source code is available upon request: see http://twiki.org/download.html.
• WelcomeGuest is a fast track guide to TWiki.
• This TWiki version is 01 Feb 2003.

-- MikeMannix - 14 Sep 2001