Tiki

Tiki Releases 6.1 Update

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 6.1. This update includes over 250 code changes by nearly 20 Tiki Community members. Although these updates are primarily fixes and improvements to existing features, there are several new items that Tiki administrators will be happy to see, including:

  • Continued upgrades for WYSIWYG editing
  • Default toolbars include a new button to easily select a file (after file upload, if needed), and it's name and link are added to the textarea of that wiki page, forum, blog, etc.
  • A new admin panel for Clipperz online password management
  • Improvements to CSS inclusion for newsletters
  • Many translation updates (from Tiki's interactive translation feature)
  • New and improved plugins for third-party media (such as Vimeo, Blip.tv, and YouTube) and generic buttons.
  • Updated plugin interface
  • New module: Tracker help
  • Export or show a wiki page in text-only format (useful to be used with Pretty Trackers)
  • Static text fields in Trackers can be sent with wiki-parsed text in notification emails.
  • New language.js file added to language folders to assist in translation of text and UI elements used in JavaScript functions.

See the Release Notes and the Tiki6 document for complete details on this release. All Tiki administrators are encouraged to upgrade to this latest release.

Multilingual Wiki Solution Video

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of its second promotional video:

How about a *real* multi-language solution?

In this video, recorded in March 2010, Philippe Cloutier, a Tiki consultant, talks about the multilingual features and capabilities of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. He explains the differences between the Tiki multilingual approach and other wiki systems.

Cloutier is a long-time Tiki contributor and programmer. In this video, he discusses the fully integrated multilingual platform that Tiki offers as well as his vision for the future of translation and mutli-lingual wikis.

In addition to facilitating page content translation, the core Tiki interface is available in over 45 languages. These translations are contributed by members of the Tiki Community.

The video can also be viewed below.

Announcing the Release of Tiki 6

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of Tiki 6. This version of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware represents hundreds of hours of work by dozens of members of the Tiki Community. Nearly 50 developers contributed more than 1,500 code changes for this release.

In addition to countless tweaks and updates, Tiki 6 includes several new, key features:

  • Extensive re-work and improvements to the Tiki blog, comments, spreadsheets and tracker features
  • Batch functions (via cron jobs)
  • Introduction of re-Captcha
  • Expanded support of ccLite community currencies
  • Integration with social networks such as Facebook
  • Improved WYSIWYG support

Tiki 6 has been designated as the Long Term Support (LTS) version, replacing Tiki 3 LTS. Tiki 3 will reach end of life when Tiki 7.1 will be released (planned for April 2011). See the Project Roadmap for details.

To download Tiki, see https://tiki.org/download. Refer to the Tiki 6 release notes for additional information.

TikiFest New York: A Great Success

More than a dozen members of the Tiki Community met in New York City October 3-6 for the last major code sprint before Tiki 6. Many others participated virtually through Tiki's integration with BigBlueButton.

Although much of the event was focused on preparations for the Tiki 6 release, additional work was completed, including:

  • Continued integration with Kaltura video-editing platform
  • Work on the Tiki TV project for collaborative editing
  • Public presentation of Tiki at the Casa Frela Gallery to the local NYC community and online Workshop on Tiki Workspaces
  • Planning for Tiki 7
  • Discussion on the future of trackers, spreadsheets and accounting

Tiki Community members also took the opportunity to meet with BigBlueButton and Kaltura team members during the Open Video Conference and participate in the OVC hack labs. Special thanks to the Kaltura Team!

TikiFest participants
TikiFest particpants at OVC (left to right): Assaf Chaprak (Kaltura), luciash d' being (Tiki), Jonny Bradley (Tiki), Nelson Ko (Tiki), Étienne Lachance (Tiki), Robert Plummer (Tiki), Denis Zgonjanin (BigBlueButton), Kimberly Fink (Tiki), Unidentified (Kaltura), Lindon Barnfield (Tiki), Philippe Cloutier (Tiki), Zohar Babin (Kaltura), Marc Laporte (Tiki), Jason Levitt (Kaltura). Photo provided by luciash d' being."

The participants also made time for socializing and camaraderie, including the celebration of Tiki's 8th birthday. Complete details of the event, including pictures, are available at https://tiki.org/TikiFestNewYork6.

Tikiwiki Announces Tiki 5.0 Beta

The Beta release of the latest generation of Tiki CMS/Groupware is now available. This 5.0 Beta includes many new features and functionality, including:

  • New themes (skins)
  • Many fixes and updates
  • Beta release of Tiki workspaces
  • Beta release of shopping cart and payments

Tiki Community members are encouraged to download and explore this new release. You can obtain the Beta (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download. For information on this and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/roadmap.

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