Welcome to TikiWiki

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is a web-based application that you can use to build a website... any type of website that you want, for working collaboratively with others. The content management system at the heart of TikiWiki powers wikis, forums, blogs, map servers, and more. You can configure the various tools and customize the appearance of the website from Admin pages that are also web-based. This guide steps you through the basics for understanding TikiWiki.

Throughout this guide (and in the user community in general) we refer to TikiWiki CMS/Groupware as simply Tiki. This guide is intended for folks who are either new to Tiki as an administrator or new to wikis and CMS products in general. We hope to provide enough perspective and procedures to get you up and running with Tiki in a way that is quicker than if you had to figure out the software on your own with only the official documentation.

This version of the guide is based on Tiki version 4.x. In fact, this reference (the entire website) is built using Tiki. Complete information on Tiki can be found at the Tiki Community portal: http://www.tikiwiki.org.

In this section

• Disclaimers
• Copyright
• Contributions
• About the Author
• Using this Guide

Disclaimers

This guide is not a replacement for the official TikiWiki Documentation. Instead this guide will walk you through some of the more common procedures and help get your Tiki up and running and quickly as possible. Tiki has more than 50 core features (more than other CMS applications) — this guide focuses only on a few of the more common items. You should explore the documentation and community portal for complete information on everything that Tiki has to offer.

This document is not related to the For Dummies series of books.

The author and other contributors make no guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of any information in this guide. By using this guide, you agree to do so at your own risk. You further agree not hold the author or any contributors liable for any results that may occur from the use of the product mentioned in this guide.

Copyright

This guide is published by KeyContent.org.

This guide is Copyright (C) 2007-2010 by Rick Sapir and others under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Some rights reserved. Please see the copyright page for details.

Fair attribution includes a return link to http://twbasics.keycontent.org (for online use) and mention of primary author (Rick Sapir) and publisher (KeyContent.org).

Some pictures are from stock.xchng. Cover picture by Marc Garrido, used with permission.

Contributions

This guide and website is based on a wiki. By contributing to this website (through comments, wiki pages, or feedback) you agree to allow the use of your contribution in this, or future versions, of this website and the TikiWiki for Dummies Smarties guide.

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