WikiUpgrade 2005 04

Wiki Upgrade Apr-2005    (AG7)

New features and changes that becomes effective on the upgraded wiki's are being highlighted below. Note that, upgrading is still in progress, and CWE-admin's are being notified as their sites are upgraded (although one can easily tell, because the user interface change is very obvious.)    (AGW)

We will be opening this up to solicit comments soon (after the bulk of the sites have been migrated). Stay tuned. (-=ppy/2005.04.06)    (AGY)

Test Wiki    (AH8)

• try the TEST wiki (which runs the upgraded version): http://test.cim3.net/wiki/    (AH9)
• in contrast, this CWE COMMUNITY wiki is still on the old version of the system    (AHA)

New Features    (AG8)

• improved User Interface    (AG9)
• visited pages ("bread crumb") trail to help people get back to pages they just visited    (AGA)
• RSS support (to allow syndication of the latest changes)    (AGB)
• content filtering (in addition to IP filtering) to help fight wiki spam    (AGC)
• account creation with CAPTCHA spambot blocking    (AGD)
• account login required before editing the wiki (not needed for viewing)    (AGE)
• support for InterMap - allowing easy navigation to other wiki's    (AGF)
• improvement to allow users to post programming code segments    (AGG)
• ... lots more (providing a much more extensible and robust backend)    (AGX)

What Has Changed (operationally)    (AGH)

• one will need to login (or create account, if one hasn't already done so on the new system) before editing. You can find that link at the upper-right corner of a wiki page (right below the community-logo or icon.    (AGI)
• a WikiWord that does not link to an already polpulated page will now be identified with a dotted underscore link -- this replaces the "?" that was employed before, as that actually disrupted the page content integrity (in cases where, for example, users were trying to post a code segment.)    (AGJ)
• one can get multiple monospaced lines (e.g. a segment of computer codes) by enclosing them between triple braces, and those lines can even start at the margin.    (AGK)

• although, if one has large chuncks, like huge number of lines with blank lines in between (e.g. trying to capture an entrie computer program), one would still need to start the lines (between those triple-braces lines) with one (or more) space(s). Like:    (AGZ)

{{{    (AH3)

     test
     this is a test
     this is only a test    (AH1)

     more test
     much more testing    (AGL)

}}}    (AH4)