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About TWiki

A corporate wiki is built to live inside a network behind a login, which makes any publicly visible instance either a deliberate exception or a leftover nobody remembered to retire. TWiki is that kind of software, written in Perl, released under GPL v2 and dated in our records to 1998, from the period when internal documentation moved off file shares and onto web servers.

The consequence for counting is severe and belongs before any figure. As of October 2026 the fingerprint appears on 9 sites, and the number describes public hostnames only. Installations on an intranet, behind a VPN, or on an internal domain no crawler resolves are invisible by definition, and for software of this kind those installations are the normal case rather than the exception. The export is a sample of the exposed edge of a much larger deployed base, and it should never be read as adoption.

The exposed edge is interesting in its own right. A public instance of a long lived Perl wiki usually means one of a few things. A project that deliberately publishes its documentation. A university or laboratory group that never moved off it. Or an internal system left reachable when the team around it dispersed. The last case is why security researchers pay attention, since software of this generation accumulates advisories over the years and an unattended install with an open registration form is a familiar way into an organization.

Age also changes the character of the list in a way newer software cannot match. A domain still serving a Wikis whose first release our records place at 1998 is telling you something about the organization behind it, which is that documentation lives in a system older than most of the people using it and that migrating away was never worth the disruption. Vendors selling knowledge management, consultancies selling migrations, and researchers studying how long enterprise software actually survives are all hunting for exactly those domains, and none of them can generate the list by guessing.

Checking domains one at a time will not assemble it either. A lookup confirms a single site and tells you nothing about the shape of the population. The full set supports the questions that need every row at once. How the population spreads across country and organizational domains. Whether it shrinks between exports. What web servers and Perl versions sit underneath. Which instances leave editable or sensitive pages open to anonymous visitors. Those answers come out of the file, joined against whatever else you already know, and not out of a search box.