Foswiki Notes

Overview

• https://foswiki.org/Home/WebHome
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foswiki
• https://foswiki.web.cern.ch/
• https://www.wikimatrix.org/show/Foswiki
• https://collab.phys.unsw.edu.au:4431/bin/view/System/TwentyMinuteTutorial

Summary

Foswiki is a fork of TWiki that was created in 2008.

The split happened due to disagreements within the TWiki community about governance and development direction. A significant portion of TWiki's core development team and community members decided to fork the project, creating Foswiki as a separate open-source wiki platform.

The key connection is that Foswiki started from the same TWiki codebase, so they share:

• Similar architecture and Perl-based implementation
• Compatible data structures and file formats (at least initially)
• Similar markup syntax and features
• Many of the same concepts (webs, topics, plugins, etc.)

After the fork, both projects continued independent development. Foswiki was positioned as having a more community-driven governance model, while TWiki continued under its existing leadership.

FosWiki Docker

• https://hub.docker.com/r/timlegge/docker-foswiki
• https://foswiki.org/Blog/UpdatingDockerFoswikiTo217