TikiWiki File Format (.tikiwiki)

A TikiWiki file holds a page written in the wiki markup of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, an open-source wiki and content-management platform that uses exclamation marks for headings and doubled punctuation for most inline formatting.

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TikiWiki at a glance#

Full name	Tiki Wiki markup
File extension	.tikiwiki
Category	Documents
Developer	Luis Argerich, Eduardo Polidor and Garland Foster
First released	2002
Compression	Uncompressed
Specification	Tiki Wiki Syntax reference
FileFlip support	FileFlip reads this format but does not write it

What a .tikiwiki file can hold#

These are the things a TikiWiki file either supports or does not, and they are what decides whether a conversion keeps everything or quietly drops something.

Selectable text	Yes
Human readable	Yes

Strengths and limitations of TikiWiki#

What TikiWiki does well

Distinct two-character markers, __bold__, ''italic'', -+monospace+-, avoid the ambiguity plain asterisks and underscores cause in other wiki syntaxes
WikiPlugins such as {CODE()} and {QUOTE()} add structured content without leaving plain text
Tiki itself is still actively developed, with a new major release roughly every eight months

Where TikiWiki falls short

The markup isn't shared with any other wiki engine, so a page only renders correctly inside Tiki
Doubled-character formatting is easy to mistype and easy to confuse with other wikis' conventions, since ==underline== and --strikethrough-- look similar at a glance
Little tooling outside Tiki itself reads it, aside from Pandoc's converter

Keep a page as Tiki markup while it's edited and served from a Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware installation.

Convert Tiki markup to Markdown or HTML when its content needs to move to a platform that isn't Tiki.

How to open a .tikiwiki file#

A .tikiwiki file opens in the programs below, grouped by the platform you are on. If you would rather not install anything, FileFlip converts TikiWiki into a format your machine already opens, and it does it in the browser tab rather than on a server.

Platform	Programs that open it
Windows	Any text editor
macOS	Any text editor
Linux	Any text editor
Web	Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, FileFlip

TikiWiki questions people ask#

What is a .tikiwiki file?

A .tikiwiki file holds a page's worth of Tiki markup, the wiki syntax used by Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Tiki stores pages in a database rather than as loose files, so this extension appears when a page has been exported or converted rather than pulled straight from a Tiki install.

Is Tiki Wiki still maintained?

Yes. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is under active development by a community of contributors and translators, and the project ships a new major version roughly every eight months.

How is Tiki markup different from MediaWiki markup?

Tiki markup uses exclamation marks for headings and doubled punctuation, __bold__, ''italic'', for most formatting, where MediaWiki uses equals signs for headings and asterisks or apostrophes instead. The two syntaxes aren't interchangeable; a page written for one won't render correctly in the other.

Converting TikiWiki files#

FileFlip does not write .tikiwiki files, so nothing on the site converts into this format. It works as a source only.

Every conversion runs inside your browser. The file is read from your disk, the work happens on your own machine, and nothing is uploaded. How FileFlip works names the engine behind each family and how to verify that for yourself.