Top 10 Reasons to Use Tiki

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

1. Tiki is free, opensource software, licensed as LGPL. The project's philosphy 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 templating 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 use of database abstraction (ADOdb) enables compatibility with many environments, including MySQL.
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. Tiki's active community includes nearly 300 developers and contributors to the code base and more than 12,000 registered users.
9. There is continuing, active development. On average, developers update the code (with new features and fixes) every two hours.
10. The official Tiki documentation, maintained by the Tiki community) contains more than 1,500 wiki pages and includes a fully illustrated PDF.