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Is this the place to report problems with the new software? When I submit an article and find a minor error, I usually click my browser's back button, edit, mark "this is a minor edit", and then "save" again. This works fine with UseModWiki, but with your software I get an edit conflict (with myself, obviously). I think the software should tolerate the case when a new submission based on the old serial number is made by the same author. I think UseModWiki does this right. --[[user:LA2]] |
Is this the place to report problems with the new software? When I submit an article and find a minor error, I usually click my browser's back button, edit, mark "this is a minor edit", and then "save" again. This works fine with UseModWiki, but with your software I get an edit conflict (with myself, obviously). I think the software should tolerate the case when a new submission based on the old serial number is made by the same author. I think UseModWiki does this right. --[[user:LA2]] |
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:Until I fix that (which will take some time), hit the "reload" button ''after'' going back to the edit page. This will reset the time-based edit conflict detection. --[[user:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] |
:Until I fix that (which will take some time), hit the "reload" button ''after'' going back to the edit page. This will reset the time-based edit conflict detection. --[[user:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] |
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Magnus - just another comment. Can we have a "Search" or a "Go" button besides the search box? I personally prefer having something I can click on rather than having to hit "enter" - [[MMGB]] |
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Revision as of 14:25, 28 November 2001
Hey, my script is actually put to work. Cool!
Magnus - it rocks. It is a huge improvement over the original software.
- Thanks!--Magnus Manske
Some minor problems - on the preferences tab "address" is spelt "adress". On the welcome screen after creating a new login "preferences" is spelt "perferences" Manning Bartlett
- Fixed.--Magnus Manske
Nice job on the new software. I downloaded the CVS tree and installed it as I want to test it for use with my DarwinWiki project. Is there a mySQL script to setup the initial database? One thing you might want to keep in mind is that you may want to generalize the script and use some variables (e.g. $WIKINAME="Wikipedia") to allow individuals to use the software on other projects. John Lynch
- Thanks! I am glad (and proud:) that the scipt is to (most) people's liking. There are several things I plan to add, like a "module" with variables that contain the complete fixed text for the wiki, so it can be adapted to different purposes and languages. Also, I'll add a "dummy" database. But unfortunately, my time is a little short till the end of December, since I am preparing for my "final tests", so the little programming I can do will go into fixing bugs. After December, I'll be back running full hacking power ahead again! --Magnus Manske
Magnus, some things to note.
- When emitting attributes, you must enclose them in quotes.
- When referring to document.f.EditBox, there had better be a .f.EditBox, which there isn't. This is giving a script error.
- http://www.example.com. should only link to http://www.example.com . http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSyntax is non-regular. You have to use some sort of multipass system, such as the token system used in UseModWiki, or a stack. It's not clear if the language is context-free, though I doubt it. That would be so non-Perl. ;)
- Have you looked at Tavi and PHPWiki?
- Tavi is a UseModWiki clone, and it is very faithful to the design principles that we put into UseModWiki. http://tavi.sourceforge.net
- PHPWiki is its own beast, but it's been around longer with a far more active community than Tavi. http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net
- To understand some of the design principles of UseModWiki, you should read MeatballWiki. http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl In particular
- From that, you should know that KeptPages is capable of elegantly and securely handling page deletion by the community at large. From the mailing list, apparently this is a problem. http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?PageDeletion
- For namespaces, have you looked at how TWiki http://www.twiki.org and the very mature and advanced FoxForumWiki http://fox.wikis.com do this?
- I think you'll notice the syntax for unordered lists isn't working.
- The colours for the diffs are very hard to read. I suspect colour blind http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ColourBlind people would agree. If not, I'd think people are going colour blind just from the purple on pastel approach. ;) Use black for the foreground text.
-- SunirShah
Hello magnus, I really like the new wiki - it is very confortable to use. One suggestion: could you make the 'Talk' subpage change colour or something to indicate that text exists there, otherwise it is impossible to know if somebody has a comment to make. -- sodium
I agree with both of sodium's above sentences. :-) --Larry_Sanger
Is this the place to report problems with the new software? When I submit an article and find a minor error, I usually click my browser's back button, edit, mark "this is a minor edit", and then "save" again. This works fine with UseModWiki, but with your software I get an edit conflict (with myself, obviously). I think the software should tolerate the case when a new submission based on the old serial number is made by the same author. I think UseModWiki does this right. --user:LA2
- Until I fix that (which will take some time), hit the "reload" button after going back to the edit page. This will reset the time-based edit conflict detection. --Magnus Manske
Magnus - just another comment. Can we have a "Search" or a "Go" button besides the search box? I personally prefer having something I can click on rather than having to hit "enter" - MMGB