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More about: what it means to Eat one's own dog food (external link) and C2 Dogfood (external link)

In the TikiWiki Community, we use Tiki's features to manage our processes and to solve our challenges. This is one of the reasons we've arrived at a phenomenal, tightly integrated and robust set of features.

Some people could think or say that we are suffering from NIH (external link) syndrome. TikiWiki offers a large number of interactions with services, standards, data format, etc., however, it is designed to be great as an all-in-one standalone application. Many CMS systems are not using their own application for their project documentation. That means that if you want to emulate what they do, you need to install separately a wiki and a CMS. With Tiki, you have this all-in-one. What is wrong with installing several applications? (external link)


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Since July 2003, the Tiki community started eating its own DogFood, used only Tikiwiki to manage the official site (not just a demo site). Tiki 1.7 ran through 4 release candidates and this has produced a great improvement in stability and usability.

During 2003-2004, tiki-forums.php started being used more & more and eventually, the Tiki forums at sourceforge were closed down.

In April 2005, the Tiki community started using dev.tikiwiki.org to manage all trackers (bugs, feature requests, etc).

In May 2005, mobile.tikiwiki.org was started to speed up development & integration of the excellent HAWHAW (external link) toolkit to make Tiki useable on cell phones, PDAs, Lynx text browsers and via VoiceXML.

In 2006, Themes & workflow community sites were launched:
http://themes.tikiwiki.org/ (external link) & http://workflow.tikiwiki.org/ (external link)

In fall 2006, an internal system to get help was implemented for the documentation site: doc.tikiwiki.org. Our documentation development is full-on wikified, and as good as any volunteer based open source project out there.

Mid-2007, a new informational site was launched. At the end of 2007, the Tiki calendar was put to work to plan community events

In 2007, www.wiki-translation.com (external link) was launched in an effort to participate to the development of a good system to manage the multilingual documentation at doc.tikiwiki.org.

Mid-2009, http://profiles.tikiwiki.org (external link) was launched, in conjunction with Tiki 3.0


On the wishlist: DogFood

Contributors to this page: marclaporte14331 points  , mlpvolt351 points  and rberry .
Page last modified on Thursday 04 June 2009 19:56:23 CET by marclaporte14331 points .

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