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Features

Tiki's Content Creation and Management Tools

Subjective self-evaluation by the Tiki community

  • Setup/admin UI: How easy / intuitive is to setup this feature?
  • UI end user : Once setup, how easy / intuitive is it for the end-user? (was it worth it?)
  • Stability: How many bugs left?
  • Feature-set / power: How does this feature compare to other Open Source apps? This field is the default sort order

Items 112

Name Feature name and link Description Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests) Type of feature Setup and admin UI UI end user Stability Feature-set and power Admin icon
Interaction with popular external software, services or websites Interaction with popular external software, services or websites For example: Google video, Google Maps, YouTube, Skype, Google AdSense, Mindmap and many more! Transversal A
Install Installation Tiki site installation is a simple process of going through the steps of a wizard, and post-install configuration also offers wizard options.

Administration A A A
Group Groups The three default groups (anonymous, registered, and admin) can be added to freely as needed for the site. Groups can inherit other groups' permissions, to simplify access management. Administration A A A A
Debugger Console Debugger Console Debugger Console

Programmers B
Browser Compatibility Browser Compatibility On the client side, all you need is a Web browser running on a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Other
Documentation Documentation Tiki's documentation is a wiki (of course!). So you can participate! The are links from your installed Tiki application directly to the corresponding documentation wiki page. As the documentationis constantly being updated and organized, broken links may sometimes occur. Please bear with us and feel free to participate! Other
Tell a friend Tell a Friend With this feature activated, to share pages, a link "Email this page" is added at the top of all pages. Transversal B B B C
Tiki Manager Manager A combination of shell and PHP scripts to install, update, backup and monitor (check security of) a large number of Tiki installations (instances). Administration D C A
Quality components

External Libraries

Tiki makes good use of existing and active open source projects such as Zend Framework, Smarty, MySQL, PHP, jQuery, Bootstrap, CKeditor, etc.

Other
User Page User Pages This provides each user with a personal wiki page that only he/she can edit. All User Pages have a similar, configurable name that includes the user name. Section A B A C
BigBlueButton Audio/Video/Chat/Screensharing BigBlueButton Open source instruction-focused real-time collaboration tool. (Audio/Video/Screensharing/Chat) Section C A B B
Screencast Screencasts (Feature removed in Tiki 17) This permits capturing the device screen and uploading to Tiki. An image is produced (that you can then draw on), or short video with sound. The jCapture applet is used. Section A A C B
Site identity Look and Feel The site can be customized or personalized using the admin interface, to set the site title, logo and so on. No need for editing PHP or Smarty TPL files.

Navigation B A B A
Semantic wiki links Semantic Links Going beyond Backlinks, allows to define some semantic relationships between wiki pages Navigation C C B B
Statistics Statistics Site-wide statistics for many features. Referrer stats and search stats also available. Transversal B B C C
Blog Blogs Multiple blogs can be created with various author and display configurations, etc. Section A A A B
Calendar Calendar Events calendar with public, private and group channels

Section B B B A
Rating Rating Lets users vote on wiki pages & tracker items Transversal D B D C
Web Services Web Services Can receive web services via JSON or YAML. Programmers D C B
Modules Modules Boxes for content, typically on the left or right of a portal-style site but can be placed anywhere, even in page content, with or without a visual frame. Very useful for navigation and content re-use. Over 100 built-in modules are available, and site admins can create their own.

Navigation A A B A
Comments Comments Comment posting available for many features (wiki pages, articles, blogs, forums, etc) Transversal B B B B
Forum Forums Forums are online discussions organized by topic (or thread). Tiki forums feature threaded or flat views, file attachments, moderation and queuing, monitoring (subscription) of particular forums or topics, and full usage of wiki syntax. Section B C B C
Copyright Copyright The Copyright Management System (or ©MS) is a way of licensing your content and displaying that license information, such as under an open or free content license. By switching this feature on, you can define a content license for all your wiki content, associate copyright notices with individual pages and display a full license for printing.

Text Area D C
Payment Payments Enables the requesting and management of payments (invoicing), and connects payments to other features. Administration C B B C
Profiles Profiles In Tiki terminology, a "profile" is a set of site configuration preferences and website item creation instructions that are applied as a group. Administration A A B A
Trackers Trackers Facts and figures storage and retrieval. A forms and database generator, with reporting. Can be used for a bug tracker, item database, issue tracker, etc Section B A B A
Workspaces Workspaces Workspaces permit you to segment a Tiki instance into smaller restricted-access sections with unique preferences, themes, etc. Transversal D B B A
Messages Messages Internal (within the site) messages from one site user to another. Section A A A B
Intertiki Intertiki Authenticate users and grant them appropriate permissions at a "slave" Tiki site based on user data from an external "master" Tiki site. (This is used at the Tiki project sites, for example.)

Administration D C D B
Watch Watch Site users can mark a page or other object to be notified by email when it is updated. Transversal B B C B
Spreadsheets Spreadsheet Spreadsheets supporting calculations and charts, import/export, etc. Section A A C C
File Gallery File Gallery File Galleries enable secure and efficient uploading, storage, downloading and other serving of all types of files including images, videos, podcasts, text and PDF documents and more. Section B C B A
Wiki Wiki Collaboratively authored documents with history of changes. Tiki's wiki has all the features you could want from a first-rate wiki. Ex.: attach files, comments, history, images, warn on edit, page locking, powerful wiki syntax, alternative WYSIWYG editor, etc. Section A A A A
Banners Banners Insert, track, and manage advertising banners. Transversal B A B C
Directory (links) Directory (links) User-submitted Web links Section A A A C
File Gallery File Gallery Storage and sharing via download or display in pages, of images, videos, and other file types . Supports check-in and check-out (lock), versions, etc.

Section A B A A
Packages Packages External software packages installation and management via Composer. Administration B B C C
Community Community Configure site community settings such as user identity and participation details, and social interaction settings. Transversal B B B C
HTML page HTML Pages Static and dynamic HTML content. Note: HTML can be used in wiki pages. This is a separate feature. Section B A C
Themes Themes Thirty-three visual themes are included and several have theme options (color variants). And, with Bootstrap compatibility, it is straightforward to create your own. Tiki themes are visual layers only and so avoid the possibility of introducing a security vulnerability.

Transversal A A A A
Webmail Webmail Provides a webmail interface for site users' own IMAP or SMTP accounts. The Webmail tool has been massively improved since in Tiki20. Please see Email as a first-class citizen Section C B C B
Multilingual i18n i18n (or internationalization) - Tiki is translated in 20 languages. Handles multilingual navigation & content. Can keep track of translation (de)synchronization. http://wiki-translation.com

Transversal C B B A
Connect Connect Various tools for communication with the Tiki Community, developers, other Tiki site admins and users. Administration B B B B
Maps Maps Maps can be created and displayed using OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap. Section B B B A
Articles Articles Articles can be used for date-specific news and announcements. You can configure articles to automatically publish and expire at specific times or to require that submissions be approved before becoming "live." In addition to categories and tags, articles include their own unique classification system of Topics and Types. Section B B B B
Color Modes Color Modes Color modes enable website users to select an alternative color scheme. Initially in Tiki 26, users can switch between light, dark, and auto (auto mode means following the preference set in the user's browser). In Tiki 26.1, the ability to add custom color modes via Look and Feel admin controls will be added. Transversal C B C C
Print Settings Print Includes printing pages, groups of pages, and PDF documents. Transversal B B B B
FAQ FAQ Create pages of frequently asked questions and answers. Section B B B B
RSS News Feeds Outgoing RSS feeds can be generated, and external RSS feeds can be subscribed to. Transversal B B B A
Search engine optimization (SEO) Search Engine Optimization Tiki is search engine friendly. For a Tiki site running on Apache web server, the .htaccess file enables short, meaningful URLs.

Navigation C