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An easy to use, yet powerful, hosted wiki service. Swirrl has all the features you'd expect from a wiki, plus powerful database-like features to help you organise your information.

* Each Swirrl wiki item has its own web page and own URL, making it easy to link-up your data and browse around it.
* As well as a familiar 'keyword' tagging system, Swirrl also lets you categorize/classify your wiki-items to keep things organized.
* Swirrl gives you the power to augment your text-based wiki pages with additional attributes or properties for the items you're describing.
* Keep tabs on who can edit your items with fine-grained permission control, and track who made changes with our version history feature (with revert option).


Provide a context for your information
Swirrl allows you to build discussions around your information. You can add comments, create rich documentation, add structured data and upload supporting files. Information in isolation often doesn’t mean very much – it helps to know where it came from, how it was produced, what it should be used for and what are the implicit assumptions and limitations.

Publish and share data
Swirrl makes it easy to share data with colleagues or publish it to the whole world. Behind the scenes, the data is stored as RDF and if you choose to publish your data on the web, it's available as Linked Data.

Technology that doesn't get in the way
There's no complicated syntax to learn, and no confusing configuration options to understand. Our web based approach lets you get started straight away. You don't need to do any design or planning before you begin, and you can restructure things as you go along.

Available, accessible, secure
All of your information can be kept securely in one place, accessible to authorized users from any of your office locations, while traveling or working from home: in fact anywhere with an internet connection. Depending on the plan you choose, communication can be encrypted using 128bit SSL (the same system as online banks) to keep your information safe.

Hassle-free
Because Swirrl is a hosted web application, there is nothing to install and you can get started in a few minutes, with no help needed from the IT department. All you need is an internet connection and a modern web browser (Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 2+, Safari 3+, Opera 9.6+, Camino 1.5+ or Chrome).

No long-term commitment
Swirrl doesn't tie you in. You can cancel, upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time. You only pay for what you need, and it's easy to export your information if you want to move it somewhere else.

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Screenshots

These screenshots should give you a first impression how Swirrl looks like. Remember: The look of many Wikis can be changed by stylesheets or templates so these are only examples.

Account Home

Your wiki's home page provides an overview of activities. You can quickly access your favourite (bookmarked) items, and items that you or others have recently edited. The home page also provides a way to communicate with the rest of your team, via 'announcements'.

Items

You can store and share your information as Swirrl wiki-items. Our powerful word processor-style editor lets you easily format and style your text, insert images and link to other pages both inside and outside Swirrl.

Swirrl wiki-items can belong to categories, and you can assign attributes (i.e. characteristics or properties) to them. For example, an item about a particular member of staff might be in the 'people' or 'staff' category, and have attributes such as paygrade, department etc.

Admin / Permissions

Wiki administrators can add, edit and delete users and groups of users. Swirrl's permission system allows fine-grained access control for both viewing and editing: allow just individual users or groups, everyone in the wiki, or publish to the whole internet. You have full control, and it's easy to see what the current settings are.

File Sharing

You can upload files into your Swirrl wiki. These could be images to embed in a wiki-item, documents, presentations or any other files related to your work. Files in Swirrl are assigned permissions, just like wiki-items, so you can easily decide who to share them with.