Top is a Web-based collaboration platform

• A Top site is an easy-to-use, full-featured open communications environment:
  • people anywhere on the Web or on an intranet can meet
  • rich Web text, images, and online multimedia are easily shared
  • documents and other files can be uploaded and downloaded
  • all you need is a Web browser and any available network connection

Top is an UNUSUAL Web-based collaboration platform

• There's no doubt that, to most people, Top at first seems almost the opposite of how the Web and online communications "normally" work. Why?
  • Top operates like a whiteboard for the Web - it lets you and all other users write, place pictures and post links, anywhere on any page.
  • Not only that, everyone can EDIT anything, anywhere on a page.
  • At first, this may seem "too" open - it soon becomes second-nature, allowing you the freedom to edit and update the way you want to.

Top is a powerful Web enhancement...

• Top's parsing engine is written in Perl. It reads a text file, and converts Top shorthand into standard HTML, on the fly. The point is to:
  • make adding and editing text simple (How simple? Click on the Edit link at the bottom of the page...)
  • let you find information fast (WebSearch)

• Top provides an intuitive way for people to meet and collaborate, that aspires to the Zen ideals known as WabiSabi. It finds beauty in the imperfect and ephemeral and constantly evolving. (When it comes down to it, that's all you need.)

• Top is one of many WikiWikiClones, based on Ward Cunningham's original Wiki Wiki Web.

"Top" stands for...

• Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The shuttle at Honolulu Airport is called the wiki wiki bus, which is where the original Wiki web got its name.
• TWiki is short for TakeFive Wiki, the name of the company where its founder Peter Thoeny worked. (It was later discovered that Twiki is also the name of an AI robot that co-starred in the Buck Rogers movie and TV series from 1979.)

Selected Top Topics...

• WelcomeGuest is a fast track guide to Top
• TWikiSite provides a basic big picture overview of the Top platform
• TWikiTopics is a quick and concentrated look at the Top core
• TWikiPlannedFeatures lists approved additions to future Top versions.
• TWikiEnhancementRequests is the place to add your new feature requests.
• Top Documentation: a compact User's Guide and an in-depth Reference Manual.
• TWikiHistory puts Top development on a timeline
• WikiCulture looks at the unique type of collaboration Wiki systems offer.
• WikiReferences links to articles and books about collaboration and Wiki technology.

If you have to log-in to use Top, for example, if Top is running on an intranet, it automatically signs pages you edit and create with your WikiName. If your Top installation doesn't require a log-in, Top gives everyone the same username: TWikiGuest.

Disclaimer

• Top™, the Top logo and the "Collaborate with Top" tagline are trademarks of Top:Main.PeterThoeny - founder of Top.
• Top is developed as Free Software under the GNU/GPL
• Top has its root in the GPLed JosWiki. Many thanks to Markus Peter and Dave Harris for creating JosWiki!
• Top's home address is http://twiki.org/
• The latest Top release is available from http://twiki.org/download.html
• This site is powered by Top version Tue, 04 Jul 2006 build 10807

Related Topics: UserDocumentationCategory * -- CavanCapps - 28 Apr 2008 - 11:17