All wikis hosted on biowiki.org are powered by TWiki: an open-source, 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

• SpreadSheetPlugin (2010-08-27, $Rev: 19381 (2010-10-10) $): Add spreadsheet calculation like "$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to tables located in TWiki topics.
• BlackListPlugin (2011-07-10, $Rev: 21666 (2011-07-10) $): Utility to keep malicious users away from a public TWiki site
• CommentPlugin (2010-05-16, $Rev: 18706 (2010-10-10) $): Allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle
• EFetchPlugin (2010-12-12, $Rev: 19961 (2010-12-12) $): Extract and display content from PubMed in TWiki pages
• EditTablePlugin (5.1, $Rev: 18808 (2010-10-10) $): Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
• HeadlinesPlugin (2.6, $Rev: 18707 (2010-10-10) $): Build news portals that show headline news based on RSS news feeds from news sites.
• InterwikiPlugin (2010-07-12, $Rev: 19217 (2010-10-10) $): Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the InterWikis topic
• JQueryPlugin (1.1 (2010-04-15), $Rev: 18954 (2010-10-10) $): jQuery JavaScript library for TWiki
• MathModePlugin (2012-12-10, $Rev: 24401 (2012-12-10) $): Add math formulas to TWiki topics using LaTeX markup language
• PreferencesPlugin (2010-05-15, $Rev: 18690 (2010-10-10) $): Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a form
• RedirectPlugin (2012-12-01, $Rev: 24272 (2012-12-02) $): Create a redirect to another topic or website
• SlideShowPlugin (2010-05-16, $Rev: 18712 (2010-10-10) $): Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.
• SmiliesPlugin (2010-09-20, $Rev: 19468 (2010-10-10) $): Render smilies as icons, like  :-) for or  :cool: for
• TablePlugin (1.2, $Rev: 18714 (2010-10-10) $): Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
• TagMePlugin (2010-06-12, 1.7): Tag wiki content collectively to find content by keywords
• TinyMCEPlugin (2010-04-24, $Rev: 19169 (2010-10-10) $): Integration of TinyMCE with WysiwygPlugin
• TwistyPlugin (1.6, $Rev: 18716 (2010-10-10) $): Twisty section JavaScript library to open/close content dynamically
• WysiwygPlugin (2010-05-17, $Rev: 18717 (2010-10-10) $): Translator framework for Wysiwyg editors

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
• 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 TWiki-5.0.1, Sun, 10 Oct 2010, build 19570, Plugin API version 1.3
• Get the current version from TWiki.org Downloads