One year after the commercial take over of TWiki.org its time look how TWiki and its successor Foswiki performed. A small blog series will cover facts and give you insight into the development status of both projects.

… http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?metric=Contributors&project 1=TWikishow that we are doing quite fine actually. Note also, that the number of active contributors is higher than ever before, even on the old project. IMAGE{"WEB/TOPIC/compare_chart.png 500px" caption="Contributors Foswiki vs TWiki"} (red: foswiki, green: twiki)

It is often claimed that only a few developers moved from TWiki to Foswiki, therefore the first article will look at who are/were active core developers of both projects.

IMAGE{"419970_33314492.jpg" type="frame" align="left" size="170" href="SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}/Blog/BlogEntry41" title="Foswiki Storage"} For a long time we've talked about stitching a relational database into Foswiki, mainly to speed up query searches. To keep things simple Foswiki uses a text database, which stores topics in lots of individual files. By default, searches are implemented by searching every one of these files individually for matching text. This isn't as bad as it sounds; searching is surprisingly fast. But it doesn't scale up terribly well, so people have coupled in various full-text search engines, such as Kinosearch, to accelerate text searches.

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The !WebDAV support for Foswiki took another leap forward this morning, when we finished development of a new !FilesysVirtualPlugin which supports different for topics. This makes Foswiki topic content much more accessible to a wider range of tools.

I think im gonna start a wiki for web hosting. Could any one point me at a link for a how to on getting started. Which interface to use ..etc. Thank you Paula J

Sven Dowideit made a reasonable comment on IRC as well, with links to some objective sources that confirm your analysis: 11:31 http://foswiki.org/Tasks/HallOfFame and http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki4/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/HallOfFame shows those stats reasonably too Quite dramatic indeed!