A 20 min. introduction to wikis and to TikiWiki 3.0 during the Feb/March 2009 TikiFest in Montreal

1. TikiWiki.org
Thursday, March 5, 2009

2. What we will talk about
• Mass collaboration & WikiWay
• TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
Thursday, March 5, 2009

3. Mass collaboration
& WikiWay
What are the most important volunteer mass
collaboration projects in the history of
humankind?
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4. Thursday, March 5, 2009

5. Why a wiki?
Give someone a fish and you
feed them for a day.
Teach someone to fish and you
feed them for a lifetime.
Add that knowledge to a wiki
And countless people will be
able to learn on their own
And share their knowledge
And many will feed their Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Fisherman_and_his_catch_Seychelles.jpg
families
Thursday, March 5, 2009

6. Email collaboration Wiki collaboration
Source: http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/uploads/frowning_email.jpg
Thursday, March 5, 2009

7. Wikis: what for?
• Co-edition (ex: encyclopedia, books, research papers,
documentation,...)
• Crisis management (ex: Fluwikie.com)
• Corporate Intranet or Extranet
• Project Management
• Crowdsourcing (ex: futuremelbourne.com)
• Open Innovation (ex: Adobe Labs)
Thursday, March 5, 2009

8. TikiWiki
CMS/Groupware
A tightly-integrated, full-featured, open
source, multilingual Web Content
Management System
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9. About TikiWiki
• Tightly Integrated Knowledge Infrastructure
• Combination CMS + Wiki + Groupware
• Free source software (LGPL) / Standard PHP/MySQL
• 700 000+ downloads so far
• Translated into 30+ languages
• 1000+ pages of documentation
• Over a million lines of code - A new code commit
every 2 hours
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11. Over 1000 settings/options in version 3.0
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13. Blog Bookmark
Alert
Action log Articles & Submissions Backlinks Backup Banner
Calendar Category Charts Chat
Browser Compatibility Cache
Comment Communication Center Compression (gzip) Contact Address book
Contact us Content template Contribution Cookie Copyright Custom Home (and Group
Home Page) Date and Time Debugger Console Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation (Help System) DogFood Drawing Dynamic Content Dynamic Variable
File Gallery System Hotword
Forum
External Authentication FAQ Featured links
Friendship Network (Community) Game Gmap Google maps Group Help
HTML Page i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish) Image Gallery Install
Integrator Interaction Inter-User Messages InterTiki JS Calendar Karma Live Support
Login Lost edit protection Mail-in Map with Mapserver Menu Meta Tag Mini-Calendar
Mobile Tiki and Voice Tiki Mods Module Mootools Multimedia MultiTiki MyTiki
OS independence
Newsletter Newsreader Notepad (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS,
Permission
Mac, BSD) PDF Performance Speed / Load Poll
Profiles Manager Quicktags Quiz Rating Shadowbox ShoutboxScore
Registration RSS
Search Engine Friendly Search Security Semantic links Site
Identity Slideshow Smarty Template Smiley Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Tags
Stats Survey
Spellcheck Spreadsheet System log Task Tell a Friend +
Trackers TRIM User Administration
Social Bookmarking TikiTests Theme
User Files User Menu Watch WebHelp Webmail Wiki 3D Wiki History, page
rename, etc Wiki plugins extends basic syntax Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc Wiki
structure (book and table of content) Workflow (Galaxia Workflow engine)
Thursday, March 5, 2009

14. TikiWiki Use Cases
• Online community / association / club / NGO
• International, multilingual project
• Corporate web site / Advanced portal / news site
• Groupware Wiki / Corporate Wiki / Corporate Intranet
• knowledge base / Knowledge Management (KM)
• Product or software documentation and support
• Wiki-based Project Management (PM)
• Development framework
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16. TikiWiki community
Hundreds of contributors around the
world over the last 6 years
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17. Patrice
Nelson Jean-Marc Marc Gary
Developer
Developer / admin Developer / admin Designer
Project admin
Sébastien Régis Patrick Amette Pascal
System admin Developer
Power user Power user Designer
Thursday, March 5, 2009

18. TikiWiki.org
Thursday, March 5, 2009