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A few coWiki features

• Editing of documents (web pages) in an HTML browser.
• Automatic resolving of document links.
• Possibility to rename any document at any time without leaving broken links. All links to other documents remain consistent even if you or someone else renames or moves a document.
• Hierarchical directory/document structure that can be nested as deep as you wish. You do not get lost, the breadcrumb navigation tells you where you are.
• Unixlike access management with owner/group/world access permissions (and restricted visibility) for each document or directory tree.
• Document revision control, comparing, colored diff'ing and recovery of documents
• Documents are parsed to XML for further export/transformation. PDF export is a good idea ...
• Threaded forums for registered users
• Plugin support through a defined API. Add your functions to coWiki.
• Template based and multilingual.
• Administration backend for complete management of this software and its users.
• ... and probably a few more things you will like.

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coWiki History

The creator, Daniel T. Gorski, originally began development of coWiki in December 2001 as a weekend study to learn how a wiki works.

The first release (0.2.0) was in March of 2002 for the BLUE MARS GmbH intranet.

Daniel began to look for new maintainers for the project on January 3, 2005.[1] New maintainers were found in a few days on January 12, 2005, lead by Paul Hanchett.

Development soon moved into the open source software host tigris.org, where the 0.3.4 maintenance release was completed by the new staff on February 24, 2005.

External links

• coWiki Homepage