Current features
Here are the currently implemented features. Some need more work of course.
themes
Easy to make, easy to change.
Currently Wiclear has the same themes capability as dotclear.
Current wiki version comes with three themes : default, blue and dokuwiki.
multi lang support
Wiki fully supports i18n (both the interface and the content).
Display the content according to user's lang and switch back to the wiki's default lang if not found.
It provides links to translate pages when needed.
hierarchical content
All nodes have a parent. That means it is easy to navigate in the site, simply follows the sub node panel on the left or the location bar on the top.
That also means orphan pages cannot happen.
commentable content
I find this one really usefull when you want to create some docs.
history
can be saved, browsed, and diff can be performed against any version
search capability
you can enter search keywords
you can see last modifications
ACLs
Each pages have ACL. ACL can be editable and applied to current page or recursively to all sub nodes. ACLs can define read/write/comment rights. Plugins can add their own ACL type.
comment and history deletion
for moderators only
Admin panel
Where you can
- edit user's rights (admin, moderator, simple user)
- delete/confirm user
- create and edit groups
- edit wiki preferences (name, allow anonymous comments, allow anonymous content edition, allow open user registration ...)
Install program
The wizard is done in 4 steps, and you're done : you can start editing your wiki.
Syndication
RSS (0.91 and 1.0) and ATOM version of the "Recent changes" page.
plugin architecture
This is available both in the admin panel and in the wiki application.
For now, there is an UTF-8 conversion plugin, and a SitePlan plugin.
UTF-8 support
It's given as a plugin that allows one to convert the whole db from latin1 to UTF-8.
what links here feature
so that it is possible to know which pages link on current page
email notifications
Allow the user to be notified when someone edit a page or add a comment to a page he is watching.
Alternate title
So that it is possible to specify a more readable title in some cases (translation, title collision)
Friendly page displayed when browsing to wiki root before install
WikiWord
Detect words with at least 2 upper case letters and make a link out of it.
Anti bot registration page
So that bot cannot easily register.
Delete documents
For admin and moderators
SpecialPages
They have the format SpecialPage:string.
For example : SpecialPage:site_plan
Site plan
Automatically generates site plan on one page with shrinkable trees (need javascript).
Conflict handling when editing a page
When a conflict is detected, contents are merged. Last user is responsible for resolving eventual conflicts.
keywords and metadata on each pages
so that related pages can be added to current page
RSS feed
Global :
- last changes
- last comments
Per page :
- page changes (history)
- comments of page
Rss feeds contain either the title or the whole content.
Title of the page in the browser
Modify the title of the page so that it is more understandable. It contains at least
- the page's title
- the current action (edit, add, comment)
- the plugin's name (site map, recent changes ...)
It allows to have better understandable entries in the history
Allow html/php content
Html content is available provided an option is activated using the admin panel (since 0.8.2).
Image upload tool for users
Allow users to upload images so that it is not necessary to have server access to do it.
The ability to attach files to pages
This is how you can upload files, including images. There is a mini system that recognizes mime types and display corresponding icons.
Remote files browser
It exists a browser allowing one to navigate accross the file structure of transferred files. This browser can be called from wiki syntax, allowing to create image gallery for example.
Trackbacks
Root page can be changed
Ban IPs
Some IP should be banned : no addition/no comment allowed for them.
Edit "by title"
Instead of having to edit the whole page, allow to edit just the section of text following a title.
Table of content generation
Wiclear can be configured (or not) to generate automatically a table of content
Simple toolbar
This plugin integrates an edition toolbar in the edition form.
Plugin anti spam
Cache
This is optional. It allows the content to be generated once and be cached so that viewing it involves reading a plain html file instead of regenerating it from scratch each time. This saves CPU, thus troughput on the server side.
Wanted features
Here are features I'd like, features I need to improve
Tag and Tag Cloud
It would be really nifty if tag support was added to WiClear. Tags make it exceedingly easy to (you guessed it) tag information and quickly retrieve it, even if the wiki pages are under different hierarchies.
Find Links
A simple tool would be really handy when you preview a page (prior to publishing) to highlight any phrases used on the page that could link to a page in the Wiki. It would also help if non-existant links could also be highlighted in the version you see on screen, so you know what needs changing.
user home page
allow registered users to have dedicated home page where they can enter what they want
Add an option to use wiki2xhtml as well
Have an install option where you can point to an existing database.
Don't understand this one
Rich : I would guess it is where you want to re-install WiClear rather than a new install or upgrade. At the moment, WiClear tries on installation to create the tables afresh and then reports that they already exist.
David : well, wiclear has an "update" mode that takes care of updating all tables when changing versions. See page update_howto. Or perhaps is it usefull when you have lost your config.ini ?
Ability to create users from the Admin interface
OK. I'd personally prefer to let the user do the registration themselves but I guess this is a matter of taste.
Pingbacks
Inter wiki link
So that it is possible to quickly create links to other web sites. Example : [Wikipedia:html] would create a link to the wikipedia web page. It should be possible to extend the notation to make link automatically to other sites. For example : [bugzilla:32008]
Comments
- threaded comments (so that one can use the wiki as a forum too)
Redirection
Add redirection pages (like Wikipédia) : the user gets automatically redirected to another page. On this other page, a comment says a redirection occured and provides a link to edit the redirection.
XmlRpc
Avec support de BlogguerAPI, metaWeblog API et MovableType API
Textile/MarkDown/Creole support
The only thing to do is to create 3 other WikiRenderer conf classes and switch between them from the conf.
Blog plugin enhancement
- add a way to make an entry published/unpublished (using acl's read right)
- add entries/comments in admin panel to apply changes on several pages at once (bulk changes)
OpenId support
See the spec
