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Tiddlers
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A tiddler is the name given to a unit of micro-content in TiddlyWiki. Tiddlers are primarily created and rendered in the content panes at the center of the TiddlyWiki page.
Tiddlers are pervasive in TiddlyWiki. The MainMenu is defined by a tiddler, plugins are delivered in tiddlers, there are special StyleSheet tiddlers, and so on.
Other systems have analogous concepts with more prosaic names (e.g. "items", "entries", "entities"). According to Jeremy Ruston, even though "tiddler" is undoubtedly a silly name, it at least has the virtue of being confusingly distinctive rather than confusingly generic.
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[edit] Structure
Each tiddler includes a basic set of fields:
- Title: unique title of the tiddler
- Modifier: author/editor (corresponds to the current username)
- Modified: last-modified date/time (12-digit number with the format
YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm) - Created: date/time the tiddler was created (12-digit number with the format
YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm) - Tags: a set of space-separated keywords (tags), enclosed in square brackets (
[[...]]if the tag contains a space - Tiddler Body: contains textual content
The title field is a tiddler's unique identifier, so there cannot be two tiddlers with identical titles.
[edit] Shadow Tiddlers
Shadow tiddlers are "preloaded" with default contents. See Shadow Tiddlers.
[edit] Tiddler IDs
Every tiddler element has a unique identifier.
This ID is composed of the string "tiddler" and the tiddler's name (e.g. tiddlerGettingStarted).
