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TWiki is a Web-based collaboration platform

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  • A TWiki site is a easy-to-use, full-featured open communication environment:
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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
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    • everything works through a regular Web browser
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    • all you need is a Web browser and any available network connection
 

TWiki is a powerful Web enhancement...

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    • make adding and editing text simple (How simple? Click on the Edit link at the bottom of the page...)
    • let you find information fast (WebSearch)
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  • TWiki provides an intuitive way 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.
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  • 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.)
 

"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.
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  • TWiki is short for TakeFive Wiki from the name of the company where its founder worked. (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.)
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  • TWiki is short for TakeFive Wiki, the name of the company where its founder worked. (It was later discovered that Twiki is also the name of an AI robot that co-starred in the Buck Rogers... movie and TV series from 1979 - see TWiki in the logo.)
 

Selected TWiki Topics...

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  • TWikiPages? tells you how to do administrative things, like renaming topics.
  • TWikiHistory timelines TWiki's development.
  • TWikiPlannedFeatures lists of approved additions to future TWiki versions.
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  • TWikiSite provides a basic big picture overview of the TWiki platform
  • TWikiPages? is a quick and concentrated look at the TWiki core
  • TWikiPlannedFeatures lists approved additions to future TWiki versions.
 
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  • WikiCulture looks at the unique type of collaboration Wiki systems offer.
  • WikiReferences links to articles and books about collaboration and Wiki technology.
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NOTE: If you have to log-in to us TWiki, for example, if Twiki is running on an intranet, it automatically signs new pages with your WikiName. If your TWiki installation doesn't require a log-in, TWiki gives everyone the same username: TWikiGuest.
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NOTE: If you have to log-in to usr TWiki, for example, if Twiki is running on an intranet, it automatically signs pages you edit and create with your WikiName. If your TWiki installation doesn't require a log-in, TWiki gives everyone the same username: TWikiGuest.
  TWikiTM is a trademark of PeterThoeny, originator and lead developer.
  • TWiki is developed as Free Software under the GNU/GPL
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  • WelcomeGuest is a fast track guide to TWiki.
  • This site is powered by TWiki version TWiki-4.2.2, Wed, 06 Aug 2008, build 17396.
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-- MikeMannix? - 01 Dec 2001
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