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Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Magmawiki

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Revision as of 19:06, 11 May 2010 by Briess (talk | contribs)
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magmawiki is the project to replace the mediaWiki engine.

Source code is hosted on Github.

IRC channel for software development (NOT dwarf fortress questions / discussions, check here for those channels!) is #magmawiki on freenode.org

Discussion of the magmawiki project on the forums is here

Versioning

0 . 0 . 14 . 0 . 153
Major version number.
Level of magma (0-6/7), new major version when it reaches 7.
Minor feature version.
Bug/security fixes on current "major.magma.minor" version combo.
Number of expletives uttered during development.

Conceptual screenshots / sketches

Login box concept.png This is rather terrible, oh well.png


Planned Versions

Version 0.1 Features

  

  • Header
    • Tabs
      • Article Actions (Read / Edit / History)
      • Talk
      • Menu
      • Favorite
      • Special tabs
    • User Bar
  • Articles
    • Optimistic Locking
    • Actions
      • Create (New)
      • Read (Show)
        • Parser (Mediawiki)
          • Article Links
      • Update (Edit)
    • Named URIs (slugs)
      • Immutable until page move (NYI)
      • Mutable titles, as long as same slug is generated
    • Revisions
      • Counter cache
      • History
      • Differences view
  • Missing unit tests
  • Users
    • Account creation
    • Login / Logout (sessions)
    • Account management
      • Localization options
      • Change password
      • Change email
    • IP Tracking
    • Revision / Article edit tied to user
  • Localization backend stuff

Version 0.2 Features

  

  • Articles
    • Actions
      • Delete
    • Optimistic Locking Merges (I don't remember what I meant by this page merge screen for changes when changes are blocked by optimistic locking)
    • Page moves
    • Namespaces
    • Page level protection
    • Redirects
  • Users
    • Captcha
    • User Permissions
    • User Permission Levels
  • Search
    • Basic article name search

Version 0.3 Features

  

  • Articles
    • Parser (Textile / Markdown?)
    • Templates
      • Mediawiki
      • Python
    • Subpages
    • Fulltext search

Version 0.4 Features

  

  • Articles
    • Live edit preview
    • Mediawiki Import functionality
    • Sandboxes
      • Sandbox merging

Points of discussion

  • Talk forums -- see this page
  • Article ratings
  • Line / Word comments (post it notes / discussion thread reference points?)
  • Alternative url implementations (RESTful state w/o /[new, edit, create, etc])
  • Side by side rendering
[09:17am] epitron: side-by-side markup/rendered-html
[09:17am] epitron: you click "preview" and it re-renders it
[09:18am] epitron: and if you scroll, it scrolls both windows in synch
[09:18am] epitron: like the way MELD does
[09:18am] locriani: that's good
[09:18am] epitron: the preview will scroll a lot less sometimes
[09:18am] epitron: like for your version number table monstrousity
[09:18am] locriani: and the cursor position in the markup window
[09:18am] locriani: or in the html window
[09:18am] locriani: will highlight the appropriate element in the other window
[09:18am] epitron: yeah!
[09:18am] epitron: cursor position would be harder
[09:18am] epitron: but it would be slick
  • AUGH PASSWORDS (Mediawiki: ":B:"+ salt + md5(salt + "-" + md5(password)) )
  • file uploads, html5 display methods, etc (video, <canvas> tags, media, acceptable formats, etc)

Considered Features

Items are color coded. Green means very important, yellow means fairly important, and red means near feature, but we need to get the other stuff done first.

  • Categories
  • Templates
  • Talk forums (could temporarily use article system as stop-gap)
  • User accounts
    • Permission levels
    • Blocking
    • Per-user JS
    • Per-user CSS
  • Search
  • Articles
    • History
    • Diff view
    • Redirects
    • Per-page JS
    • Per-page CSS
  • Namespaces
    • Aliases
  • User Preferences
    • Default search namespace
    • Change password (if there are users)
    • Signature? (with forums not really needed)
  • Maintenance
    • API for bots
    • Disabling edits to large categories of pages
    • Automated spam filtering