Foswiki

Recently I have been having intermittent problems with various Foswiki plugins when running under FastCGI. Sometimes a plugin would only partially render, or would not render at all. Other times it would be fine. On a test install of Foswiki, it always seemed to work fine. As always with intermittent problems, it can be very frustrating to track down the problem…

After a lot of work I have finally released the new Kino Search extensions for Foswiki.

In a standard Foswiki setup there is a topic in every web called WebTopicList, which is linked to from the side bar as Index. By default it simply lists all the topics in one big list, as shown below (or view on foswiki.org):

I have knocked up a small add on for Foswiki that makes it easy to add social bookmarking and news links to a Foswiki page. It is called the SocialBookmarkingAddOn and is available at http://foswiki.org/Extensions/SocialBookmarkingAddOn. It relies on no other extensions and currently supports the following five sites:

Today Foswiki 1.0 has been released. Foswiki is an enterprise wiki and was started as a fork from TWiki back in October 2008¹.

On the 27 October the TWiki community was split and a fork was started with the temporary name of NextWiki. Although I don’t know all the politics behind this, it seems there has been friction between the community and TWIKI.NET for a long time. There are many other blogs and news pages that summarises the fork and some are linked at the bottom of this post.