Top 10 Reasons to Use Tiki

Why use Tiki as your content management system (CMS)? Here are some of the top 10 reasons:

1. Tiki is free, open source software, licensed as LGPL. The project's philosophy is detailed in our social contract.
2. Tiki has all the features you want wiki, news articles, blogs, polls, forums, trackers (database), image and file galleries, and much more in a tightly bundled system.
3. Tiki has fine-grained user and group permissions. This allows you to easily give users access to exactly what they need.
4. Because Tiki uses a powerful template engine (Smarty), you can easily customize a Tiki site to make it your own. Tiki's Site Identity and Theme Control features make it easy.
5. Tiki has an all-in-one model for tight integration, frequent releases and easy upgrades.
6. The Tiki project partners with Open Source Software actors. We leverage existing technologies and partner with field leaders whenever possible.
7. As a leading CMS application, Tiki has been nominated for, and received, several awards by the software community.
8. The active Tiki community includes hundreds of developers and contributors to the code base and more than 19,000 registered users.
9. There is continuing, active development. On average, developers update the code (with new features and fixes) every two hours. Review the Roadmap to see where we are going.
10. The official Tiki documentation, maintained by the Tiki community), contains more than 1,500 wiki pages and includes a fully illustrated PDF.

See the community-contributed Top 10 Lists for even more reasons.

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