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Whilst enjoying the company in IRC you may see some unfamiliar terms:

tw.o
http://tikiwiki.org (external link) (You are here smile - Community site)

doc.tw.o or d.tw.o
http://doc.tikiwiki.org (external link) - Documentation site

devtwo
http://dev.tikiwiki.org (external link) - Developer site

info.tw.o
http://info.tikiwiki.org (external link) - Public information site

themes.tw.o
http://themes.tikiwiki.org (external link) - Themes site

sf
http://sourceforge.net (external link)

polom
a greeting, usually on IRC. It's a reference to what was saying tom bombadilom when walking in the forest "polom polom it's tom bombadilom" from a Tolkien book.

irc
Internet Relay Chat. This is our chatroom.

modules
right- and left-column boxes in Tiki (also can be displayed in a wiki page by use of a plugin). Not the same meaning as in other CMSs.

plugins
extensions of the wiki syntax. Not the same meaning as in other CMSs.

Galaxia
The Galaxia Workflow engine, integrated to Tiki

DogFood or Dogfooding
use TikiWiki's features to manage our processes and to solve our problems

Moz or SUMO
The SUport MOzilla (external link) site (powered by Tiki)

BRANCH,CVS,SVN
Terms used by developers in reference to the repository of files

1-9, 2-0, HEAD
Different branches of Tiki versions.

RFE
Request for enhancement that you should submit to devtwo

#tikiwiki
the chatroom

WYSIWYCA
What You See is What You Can Access (do not show options that you are not supposed to see). In other words, list and menu items aren't displayed for pages or features, etc, that the visitor doesn't have permission to see.

WYSIWYG
(Also w5g for the typing averse) What You See Is What You Get - In TikiWiki 2, the FCKeditor is integrated and shows text layout and styling, etc. in the edit window.



Contributors to this page: chibaguy1469 points  , xavidp779 points  , marclaporte11265 points  , Damian3407 points  , RussWilde48 points  and george.geller497 points  .
Page last modified on Tuesday 28 October 2008 09:01:22 CET by chibaguy1469 points .

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tonye1513 points : Tried to use module tutorial and got a error message about insufficient permission. Why
BVanBuren128 points : Video site broken: [Link] gives [Link]
mattester: Please tell us where you think TikiWiki should go in the future http://tikiwiki.org/I+Think
SEWilco51 points : Today's date is 2008-10-02
SEWilco51 points : I've done a couple of recent installations also.
chibaguy1469 points : IkeEisenstadt, it isn't broken as far as I know (installed ok with it). Post details in the forum, please.
IkeEisenstadt37 points : Is install.php broken--am having trouble
Lir71 points : Tiki looks great... if only I could follow the installation instruxions! It looks better than TWiki and Dokuwiki, but the intruxions remain elusive! How do you start the bloody thing!?!
chibaguy1469 points : New themes available to logged-in users: go to your MyTiki user prefs page. :-)
Darkbee173 points : Woohoo, 2.0 is here and it's looking good. Great work ladies and gents!