Hello!

I'm Terris Linenbach. I've been a Wiki fan since I first saw the Portland Pattern Repository before the word "web" became part of popular culture.

I installed Tiki on my personal website, which is a Linux server, starting in July 2003. I immediately became a Tiki advocate.

My TW Sites

• http://xmlev.com
• http://dwwiki.com
• http://terris.com

More to come!

TW Editing Kickstart

I wrote my own Sandbox type Wiki page. It has taken me about six months to find most of the Wiki tricks and I hope others can benefit from my research being cataloged in a single location.

TW Installation

I wrote the brief install instructions for IIS at IisInstall. UserPagemarclaporte deserves the credit for uploading this content from my personal website.

I don't much care for Wiki Words. I think the (( syntax invented by the Tiki team is brilliant.

TW Usage

• See my wiki work experience.

At work, we use Tiki Wiki as a knowledge base for our support folks, a design metabase for our developers, and a project metabase for project managers. Wikis are extremely flexible. We really only use Tiki for its Wiki at work becase everyone is already used to Exchange, Office, and TeamTrack which is an expensive and utterly horrid bug tracking system. I hope that someday Trackers can replace the need for bug tracking software (keep working mose! ).

Wiki Organization

I am still struggling with organizing large Wikis, whether to use naming conventions or categories or Wiki pages that are (usually incomplete) tables of contents. I just don't see a really clean solution and this issue haunts all Wikis. I guess namespace issues are never solved very well.

The category feature of Tiki is quite innovative. Attempting to categorize a Wiki is like trying to write an index for a book. It's very time consuming. I like the fact that it's easy to add pages to categories via the "categoies" menu item, but it's a pain to remove objects from categories in bulk. I have a love hate relationship with browser based applications.

Categories eventually falter because they become a dumping ground for pages. Page descriptions do help quite a bit though.

TW Nits

My biggest gripe about TW usability is the lack of wysiwyg wiki editing. This makes TW wiki adoption extremely difficult especially for non-geek users. See EditorDev.

RSS feeds could be even more useful if they were better implemented. When attachments or comments are altered, nothing appears in the feed, nor does it appear in the calendar. Boo!

Please see this tracker item for the much needed "send Wiki page as HTML via email" feature.

I have high expectations for free software and I personally implore all you Tiki developers to stop working for free! You're making us Java/C#/C++ programmers look bad.

MySql Database Corruption

I have found this page invaluable for de-corrupting a tiki database. It has saved my life!

Stupid Tiki Tricks

ActiveDirectory Integration

I'd like to authenticate using Microsoft's Active Directory. Any ideas how to do this?

• This has been answered in the comments

Disabling CSRF (sea surfing) Detection

Comment out the contents of check_ticket in lib/tikiticketlib.php

Date format in calendar

The date format is hard-coded. Edit tiki-calendar.php and replace the text "%d/%m" with, say, the much better (:biggrin:) "%m/%d" format. I have submitted a feature request that the calendar use the user's date format preference.

Large File Upload (galleries, attachments)

• FileGallerySettings