Welcome to TWiki: a flexible, powerful, secure, yet simple web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base or any other groupware tool on either an intranet or on the Internet. This is the place to learn about TWiki features, find where to download it, and try it out for yourself...

The official TWikiTM site is http://twiki.org/

• Help on Installed Plugins

• DefaultPlugin: This plugin can be used to specify some simple custom rendering rules. It also renders depreciated *_text_* as bold italic text.
• SpreadSheetPlugin: Add spreadsheet calculation like "$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to tables located in TWiki topics.
• BibliographyPlugin: cite bibliography in one topic and get a references list automatically created.
• CommentPlugin: Allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle.
• EditTablePlugin: Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
• InterwikiPlugin: Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the InterWikis topic
• RenderListPlugin: Render bullet lists in a variety of formats
• SlideShowPlugin: Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.
• SmiliesPlugin: Render smilies as icons, like  :-) for or  :cool: for
• TablePlugin: Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
• TopicVarsPlugin: Set variables in arbitrary topics and refer to them from other topics within the same web
• TreePlugin: Dynamic generation of TWiki topic trees

TWiki Reference Manual

Documentation for webmasters, system administrators, project managers, team leaders, and all other users of the TWiki advanced online collaboration platform.

• All manual sections in one big page:
  • TWiki Documentation (560k)
• Manual sections in separate pages:
  1. TWiki System Requirements
  2. TWiki Installation Guide
  3. Windows Install Cookbook
  4. TWiki Upgrade Guide
  5. TWiki User Authentication
  6. TWiki Access Control
  7. Text Formatting Rules
  8. TWiki Variables
  9. File Attachment
  10. TWiki Forms
  11. TWiki Templates
  12. TWiki Skins
  13. Formatted Search
  14. TWiki MetaData
  15. TWiki Plugins
  16. TWiki::Func Module Documentation
  17. TWiki Site Tools
  18. Managing Topics
  19. Managing Webs
  20. Managing Users
  • Appendices
    • A. TWiki File System
    • B. TWiki CSS
    • C. Encode URLs With UTF8
    • D. TWiki Development Timeline

• ADMINS: In less than an hour, you can read through and customize the User's Guide to reflect the exact feature set enabled on your own TWiki site. See also other enhancement pages:
  • TWikiAdminCookBook: Some tips that can be applied before installation
  • InstantEnhancements: Simple tips (using just browser, no install needed) and quick (max couple of minutes).
  • AdminTools: Topics an admin typically needs, all in one page

TWikiSiteTools

• TWikiSiteTools include utilities for navigation and for monitoring TWiki web and site-wide activity.

• TWikiPreferences: TWiki site-wide preferences
• InstalledPlugins: currently available TWiki add-on features

• The SiteMap: A color-coded directory of available webs that can be easily included on any page (below)

• You are currently in the TWiki web. The color code for this web is this background, so you know where you are.
• If you are not familiar with the TWiki collaboration platform, please visit WelcomeGuest first.

Web	TWiki Site Map	Use to...
Main	Welcome to TWiki... Users, Groups, Offices? - tour this expandable virtual workspace.	...get a first-hand feel for TWiki possibilities.
TWiki	Welcome, Registration, and other StartingPoints; TWiki history & Wiki style; All the docs...	...discover TWiki details, and how to start your own site.
Benedict	Benedict Family Web	...collaborate on testing stuff
Busse	Busse web	...collaborate on
Craighead	Craighead family history and ancestors	...collaborate on
Locations	Hstory, maps and stories of the old homestead towns.	...history, maps and stories of the old homestead towns.
Morris	The Morris Family of Canada	...collaborate on the Morris family history
Pardo	Pardo ancestors	...collaborate on the Pardo family and photos
Tutorial	Sandbox test area with all features enabled.	...experiment in an unrestricted hands-on web.
You can use color coding by web for identification and reference. This table is updated automatically based on WebPreferences settings of the individual webs. Contact webmaster@genealowikiNOSPAM.com if you need a separate collaboration web for your team. See also AdminTools.

Legend of icons:

= Go to the home of the web = Search the web

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• TWiki^TM is a trademark of PeterThoeny
  • Note: Twiki (with a lower case "w") is a robot character in the Buck Rogers^TM in the 25th Century TV series. TWiki (with an upper case "W") is not affiliated with the Dillie Family Trust, the registered trademark owner of the Buck Rogers name
• TWiki is developed as Free Software under the GNU/GPL
• This site is running TWiki version 04 Sep 2004 $Rev: 1742 $, Plugin API version 1.025
• Get the current version from TWiki.org Downloads