{"id":298,"date":"2008-10-29T21:19:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T04:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-10-29T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T04:22:42","slug":"death-to-twiki-long-live-nextwiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/10\/29\/death-to-twiki-long-live-nextwiki\/","title":{"rendered":"death to twiki! long live nextwiki!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a title=\"Matt Asay on the Twiki fork\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13505_3-10078682-16.html\">Matt Asay<\/a>, an interesting <a title=\"IRC or something similar about Twiki\" href=\"http:\/\/colas.nahaboo.net\/twikiirc\/bin\/irclogger_log\/twiki_fork?date=2008-10-27,Mon\">IRC chat<\/a> by the Twiki community (the  TWiki Community Council) leading up to a fork in the project and the creation of Nextwiki.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like being at the Twicleration of Twikipendence, if England was a wiki.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used Twiki in the past; it&#8217;s been one of the most enterprise-friendly wikis around, and highly functional.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/10\/picture1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/10\/picture1-300x225.png\" alt=\"The Declaration of Fork\" width=\"309\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;<a title=\"Declaration of Fork\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nextwiki.org\/\">Statement of Fork<\/a>,&#8221; really one of the best names for a web page that I can imagine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of October 27th 2008, &#8216;TWiki&#8217; is no longer the same &#8211; it is now commercial open source. The people that have driven TWiki development for the past decade feel the time has come to do so under a different name.<\/p>\n<p>The new project, promises new features that have been long-awaited while maintaining a clear upgrade path for existing installations. The name is as of yet undecided, nextwiki, twikifork and notwiki are just placeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The new project will be a true open-source project, not only in the sense that source code will be published under the GPL license, but aiming at a democratic governance free of commercial influence and trademark issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Matt Asay, an interesting IRC chat by the Twiki community (the TWiki Community Council) leading up to a fork in the project and the creation of Nextwiki.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like being at the Twicleration of Twikipendence, if England was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/10\/29\/death-to-twiki-long-live-nextwiki\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-4O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}