Wiki Engine Review Twiki May Two Thousand

Review of TWiki, May, 2000, Release

General Notes

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Notes

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General

• Date of Review: November 29, 2000

• WikiEngine and Version Reviewed: TWiki, May, 2000, Release

• WikiEngine Author:

• Review Summary:

• Review Quality: Incomplete -- I started this when the December, 2000 release was already available. When I found it, I put this on "hold" and switched to that. This review left incomplete -- if someone has the interest they may complete it. There are some public WikiForums that continue to use this version of TWiki.

• Standard Features Missing (see WikiEngineReviewStandardFeatures):

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Software

• Server OS:

• Language:

• Database:

• Required Software:

• Installation Difficulty:

• License:

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WikiFarms

• Name / cost / limits / URL:

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Content

• Display WardsWiki text? See http://kit.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/WikiReviewTextFormattingTest. Significantly different. Text enclosed in angle brackets is hidden (apparently treated as HTML tags). Lists work reasonably. Multiple single quote emphasis does not work at all. You would probably want a translator to import text from WardsWiki.

• Text formatting rules: Look significantly different than WardsWiki -- see http://kit.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/TextFormattingRules

• Headings?

• Allowable WikiNames: Original, plus adjacent caps / all caps, plus numbers, but with some limitations like a number can't precede the first lowercase letter. See http://kit.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/WikiNotation. (Now need some new samples for my WikiReviewTextFormattingTest?.)

• Subpages?

• Max Page Size:

• Tables?

• Images?

• Attachments?

• Editing Contention Resolution:

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Readability

• Search capabilities:

• Email notification:

• Diffs:

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Security

• Embedded HTML (risky): Yes, at least up to HTML 3.2. Have not seen any reference to the ability to disable or otherwise mitigate the hazards.

• Password protection?

• Delete Pages?

• Revision Snapshots?

• Rollback:

• Delete Snapshots?

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Working Well with Others

• Static or dynamic web pages:

• Indexed by search engines?

• InterWiki Links?

• Import / Export Features:

• Translators to/from other Wikis?

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Miscellaneous

• Extra Features:

• References:
  • http://kit.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiDocumentation

• Browsers Used: (See WikiEngineReviewBrowsersUsed for abbreviations)
  • IE5_rhk

• Comments by Users:

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Originator / Author, Maintainer, Contributors

• Originator / Author: RandyKramer
• Contributors: <add your Wiki name, move this to next line>

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