WiKi

Sopan Shewale, Persistent Systems Ltd.

What is Wiki?

Web Site that allows visitorsto easily addRemoveedit and change some available content

WikiWikiWeb == Writable WebAs quick to contribute as e-mailEasy to use (Generally Browser used)

Ward Cunningham implemented the this concept first in 1995

Examples of Wiki Tools

Examples of Wiki Tools

Which one should be used?

Open Source Tool Vs Commercial Is developer community active? Tools/Plugins to Extend the Functionality? Easiness to Manage the content

http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/Socialtext+TWiki+XWiki

Which one is my Favorite?

For What?•Knowledge Management in Enterprise Environment•A few Projects use it for Project management•Wiki Site for Business Development Dept – sharing/managing customer related documents/presentations

Why Twiki?•Open Source (apache+perl-cgi)•Active Developer community•Large Number of Plugins•Matured Plugin API - Easy to extend Functionality

PBWiki – Give a try

If you don’t want to install any tool/wiki web site on your own-you can give a try to pbwiki. You get some space on public internet, invite

friends/collegues to collaborate to site. May be you can start with http://pbwiki.com/

Take a tour at http://pbwiki.com/tour/1.html Visit http://forums.pbwiki.com/ if you have

any issues I use pbwiki for my Personal Purpose – visit

http://sopanshewale.pbwiki.com

TWiki-Enterprise Collaboration Platform

Easy to Install (My personal views ) Linux (any flavor –e.g. Fedora) Apache 1.3 or 2.x Web Server Perl 5.8.x (choose any recent stable version) and modules like

CGI::Session are required Overall process is (Read the process at -

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki04/TWikiInstallationGuide ) Download TWiki from

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki Let us assume you have installed apache web serrver in

/usr/local/apache Make directory for installation for installation-let us say it is

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/twiki Unzip/unpack twiki in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/twiki

Configure web server so that you can execute scripts as cgi scripts from /usr/local/apache/htdocs/twiki/bin directory

If your web site is http://yourdomain.com then http://yourdomain.com/twiki/bin/configure can help you to configure your twiki site.

TWiki-Enterprise Collaboration Platform

Check the commercial version at http://twiki.net They provide the Software Appliance Based Solution

Reference

Peter Theony Presentation- http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiPresentation2006x04x05

Compare various wiki tools at http://www.wikimatrix.org/