TigerWiki was a minimalist open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 flat file wiki software

Wiki software

Wiki software is collaborative software that runs a wiki, i.e., a website that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web application that runs on one or more web servers...

 written in PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

 by Chabel. Based on roWiki, it takes its basis while adding several functionalities such as password protection and the management of page revisions.

The development of TigerWiki was discontinued in September 2007. Several forks

Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a legal copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software...

emerged as its successors, such as WiKiss; all of these have been discontinued as well, as of 2009.

External links

• History of roWiki referencing all known forks (as of spring 2009) and alternative versions of roWiki.