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title: "Moving toward Kwiki, away from TWiki"
date: 2004-09-18T13:51:32-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2004/09/18/moving-toward-kwiki-away-from-twiki/
author: Les Orchard
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# Moving toward Kwiki, away from TWiki

I'm getting a bit tired of my [TWiki][twiki] install--  I never really liked the WikiText variant it uses, and it seems a bit heavy and slightly overkill.  Admittedly, I haven't bothered to follow the project or upgrade my installation in over a year or so, but it just hasn't appealed to me.

So, I'm going to try out [Kwiki][kwiki].  I like the WikiText, the module system, and the templating system better.  Also, it seems quite a bit less lumbering to me, which is wholly subjective at this point.  I haven't put much effort at all into making it fit within my site template, but that should be easy enough once I get the time.

To start off, I'm going to work on emptying out my head on [dbagg3 / FeedReactor][feedreactor].

[feedreactor]: http://www.decafbad.com/kwiki/index.cgi?FeedReactor
[twiki]: http://www.twiki.org
[kwiki]: http://www.kwiki.org

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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.socialtext.com"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e377f3e2140297d32460ae9a4b38ff98&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.socialtext.com">Edward Vielmetti</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221090689" class="permalink"><time datetime="2004-09-18T18:19:22">2004-09-18T18:19:22</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Good choice Les - drop me a line if you want to get a personal intro to the project team.  Ed</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://bloiki.nur-eine-i.de/feeds/rss"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=72aaafbe3caebac50e16a1de31d8717a&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://bloiki.nur-eine-i.de/feeds/rss">Benjamin Reitzammer</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221090691" class="permalink"><time datetime="2004-09-21T02:22:32">2004-09-21T02:22:32</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Kwiki is really a good wiki software. It's very flexible, once you get a grip on the plugin architecture. My blog is powered by some homegrown Kwiki plugin, although I'm still missing some niceties, that usually come with blog software.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.cleaver.org/"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=035201f02846b5bc4bac5607b34ac77b&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.cleaver.org/">Martin Cleaver</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221090696" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-03-25T19:50:37">2005-03-25T19:50:37</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Hi Les,
  What was your conclusion? 

Regards, M.</div>
            
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