For those of you who don’t already know, a Wiki is basically a collaborative website set up so that users can change the information contained on it freely. We thought it might be a nice addition to the TSS site, apart from the blog it will be used to describe the system, it’s features and how to use it.

Wikipedia.org is a free online encyclopedia, and the world’s most popular Wiki. All of the content on Wikipedia.org is submitted, maintained, and checked for accuracy by the global internet community. I decided to research a personal Wiki using Wikipedia, I first came across the Wiki software page which then led me to the List of wiki software page.

I decided on using a PHP based Wiki solution, and found TigerWiki on the List of wiki software page. The time between the initial download, installation and customization of TigerWiki was less than 25 minutes. I was floored at how easy it was to get it up and running. Although the english documentation for TigerWiki wasn’t that great, it proved to be extremely easy to use.

The customization of TigerWiki was the easiest I have ever seen. TigerWiki uses variables encapsulated with an open squiggly bracket “{” and a closing squiggly bracket “}”. Taking the variables from the existing TigerWiki template and putting them into a new TSS template took no more than 2 minutes.

Pre-Customization This is TigerWiki prior to customization, I had added some test content just to see what it looked like.

Post-Customization This is TigerWiki two minutes after adding the test content. Fully customized with the TSS theme.

Feel free to check out the Wiki, we’re adding lots of new content so keep checking back.