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7/7/2008 10:28 PM
 

Thanks for your hard work making the new version of Wiki available, Chris.  It's making some positive strides, however, after anxiously waiting over a year for this release, I am hopeful that development efforts are being stepped up to the next level, and that Wiki becomes a complex, fully featured module such as the message board module... :)  As you can notice from all the buzz in the industry, Wiki's are becoming much more important in the enterprise... and DNN will help serve to fill much of this need for those who don't want to install LAMP solutions... but that also means we want to have solutions that are as good as ones running on LAMP in order to justify going one way or another.

I installed the new Wiki, however, one thing I am noticing is that the RSS feeds no longer works like they used to.  In my instance, we have need to keep people in "read-only" mode, and would not be capable of going into "edit mode".  This prevents them from tagging a page for RSS purposes, since the only way I'm seeing this will work is if they're in "edit mode".  Is there any way (that I'm not seeing) for people to tag wiki pages for RSS purposes without being in "edit mode"?

Some other things I'd really like to see is a feature of being able to order the index list of wiki topics manually, and be able to indent them so they can be used in this manner to look pleasing to the eye.  Such as this:

Topic 1
--- Sub Topic 1
--- Sub Topic 2
------ Sub Sub Topic 1
Topic 2
... etc

Another thing that would be nice would be for a way to be able to more easily index words within a Wiki article without having to know the exact page title that have to be inserted between [[ and ]] brackets.  Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way where you could highlight a word and link it to a pre-existing wiki topic dropdown selection list?  Or perhaps it could go through and automatically link words based on pre-existing wiki topics as you're saving the content?  I'm pretty sure people aren't manually creating all those links in wikipedia.org articles by themselves, and that some automated mechanism is doing that for them?  I could be wrong...

Anyways... just some comments and suggestions... :)

Take care,
Mike

 
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7/8/2008 12:24 AM
 

Thanks for the feedback Mike.

We are definitely looking to make the module more functional, as well as easier to control from an admin perspective in the next release. I would like to see automatic topic linking as part of that functionality. We are also going to be looking at writing some navigation control functionality for the module.

The goal right now is 2-3 months for the next release to be submitted to the release tracker, though that may change with everything else going on this summer in the DNN world!

As for RSS, do you mean you want people who can edit a module to be able to enable RSS without getting into the module settings for a module?

 


Chris Hammond
Former DNN Corp Employee, MVP, Core Team Member, Trustee
Christoc.com Software Solutions DotNetNuke Module Development, Upgrades and consulting.
 
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7/12/2008 7:58 PM
 

Hi Chris... that definitely sounds positive!  I'm really excited for all of us using Wiki!  :)

Regarding RSS... that is correct.  We may not necessarily have people that we want to give access to in order to get into the module settings for a module (which actually may be a bit too hard of a concept for some of the users out there).  Having an RSS 'button' on each Wiki page (if you enable the RSS option under the module) would be a great and easy way for any user to tag a Wiki topic to their RSS reader... without having to have that permission to get into the module settings.

Thanks again,
Mike

 
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