Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 9.0

Thank for a great CMS. If you are looking for a quick drop and drag builder, Tiki Wiki most likely is going to be slightly complex. As far as it being used within the IT and business world, I guess it would depend on the knowledge within that given business or IT department. My personal stat used here, but if it were left up to 90% of the IT paycheck collecting world we all would still be running Windows XP and viewing something via a chromatic screen. I am tired of hearing "It will take XXXXX to convince the IT world". Convince yourself and give Tiki Wiki a try.

@gta74 .... I hope you're not part of the dev team...!

After various posts questioning the direction and usefulness of this software, all you have to say is:

"@Mike: if you want to help the community, you may join the Tiki developers mailing list (http://dev.tiki.org/Dev+Mailing+List)

Btw: Tiki 7 is on it's way!"

Whether I have enough skill to assist is one thing, but I'm certainly not interested in being involved in a project that has no control.

Another CMS (or whatever it is supposed to be) soon to join the 'What happen to....' category.

TikiWiki is WAY too complex to be used in the business world.
The admin interface lacks organization and clarity. "All-In-One" doesn't quite describe it. It's a collection of applications loosely strung together under one umbrella.

I don't know what it was like in the beginning, but it's Frankenstein now. More of a toy for website developers. Not very useful as a CMS.

Hi everybody,

Tiki is (partially) translated to a lot of languages. Bulgarian translation can be neglected atm because of the few number of translated strings.

You can have a look into the actual translation status of all languages at http://tikiwiki.org/i18n+status. The 'mixture' of languages (english and polish as mentioned) is caused by partial translation.

@Mike: if you want to help the community, you may join the Tiki developers mailing list (http://dev.tiki.org/Dev+Mailing+List)

Btw: Tiki 7 is on it's way!

"Translated To:
# Arabic
# Bulgarian
# Bulgarian
# Catalan"

I'm sorry, but there is no "bulgarian" translation ("bg" lang folder"), no matter how many times it will be written "nulgarian"!
Good luck with the search results!!!

There is not bulgarian language ("bg" lang folder)! But above in the article us wrutten "bulgarian" maybe to boost search results?

I would seriously question the productivity possible with this package. If you want to get things done quickly, I suggest you look elsewhere.

This is great software for students and technically interested people that have a lot of time, and want to play with something. There are loads of options, and possibilities. However, this is not recommended for pure business purposes. It is likely that you will spend far more time than you will gain.

I hope the developers of Tiki Wiki, or the community see the absolute need to produce different versions of this package. 'One size fits all' just does not do the job well enough nowadays. What this package needs is focus, not just on-going development of modules.

As someone else said, the main aspects of this system can be done much quicker with other CMS or wiki systems.

My point is, who can use this and gain from it? The one thing it could do well but doesn't do easily is project management. If you need a pure wiki, why would you want to go through the 100 other options? If you want a community portal, there are better options.

The reason for the long post? Because Tiki Wiki has enormous potential, but only if developers connected with this project get more focus - it can't be everything to everyone. Otherwise it will be become nothing to no-one.

Easily installable profiles don't help, because you just end up with an example system and no knowledge of how it fits together. so modifications / additions are more difficult.

Take the hint. Why were profiles needed? Because it was too complicated. Solve the complications (not by creating profiles), focus the development, and this could be a really good system.

for the time being, my advice is save your time, decide what you actually want, and look elsewhere.

p.s. If people involved in the project would like to discuss this, I am quite open to that.

Nice. Thanks for making this available. Looking forward to testing Tiki6 to see if some of the bugs are worked out.

It seems that there is a mix of Polish and English in this demo version.

Though one could flounder through makes it very difficult for single language people.

By the way, in Tiki now there is a search feature that searches for the configuration options that match what you are looking for in the admin panel. Yes there are many options, but with the search it's easy to find, plus with Tiki Profiles can be scripted.

I agree there are far too many things to configure, but i doubt we could get rid of more than a dozen or two, even if we really really tried. Each checkbox will have a champion! That's just "the Tiki way" - keep it optional and everyone has a right to keep what they need.

Meanwhile, have any of you (saying it takes too long to set up etc) tried "profiles" in Tiki? Check out http://profiles.tikiwiki.org for more.

Thanks for the kind words as well though, it's nice to know we're going in the right direction generally! :)

Like everyone said, the admin is a total mess. There is FAR too much to play with. In all reality, there doesn't need to be this many options and configurations. If kept this way, there should be "Simple" or "Minimal" variations accessible with the click of a button. Or a simple "Advanced" menu option.

Sure, it is, in my opinion, the most powerful Wiki out there and is probably the best looking one, but man, it takes hours and hours to do a very simple task that I can accomplish in 1 or 2 minutes in Drupal or Joomla.
Some items should also be combined to increase admin user friendliness. I'll still use it, as it really is a great Wiki, but I sure wish they'd ditch some of these useless options. A lot are just not needed. Even still, I'd choose it a million times over Media Wiki, that's for sure!

the installation is a standard one..but the administration is a mess. too many switches and tweaks distributed over a dozen of config pages...this wiki/cms may be a powerful one, but it's usability and administration however are only for those with lots of time to find out how to do simple things..
i spent couple of hours trying to display a navigation menu for non-registered users..

Couldn't even get it installed on 2 different platforms following their instructions to the letter. Also used IRC chat for help in the matter and was unable to get help with the install. I eventually gave up and I'm not linux guru but I've installed and used hundred of apps that required configuration. This one was a waste of my time.

To vasco:

The link is working correctly for me. The correct URL should be: http://php.opensourcecms.com/free/videos/tikiwiki.php?videoid=1