What's new in TikiWiki 2.0 | |
Please see very important Release Notes for more information. Please also see the article about 2.0 release
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A quick introduction video to version 2.0 | |
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Full list of changes | |
To see the full list of changes introduced in version 2.0, see the changelog with the 6894 commits (code changes). Below is the executive summary. If you feel there is something missing, please update it. It's a wiki!
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New & improved features | |
(alphabetically sorted)
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1.1.1. Accessibility | |
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1.1.2. Action log | ||
Logs allows an admin or any user with the necessary permission granted to view reports of actions made by him/herself or by other users of the same site.
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1.1.3. Admin improvements | |
Admin show the release of tikiwiki
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Menu up and down arrow
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One click for multi check in many pages
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Reminder ask user name or address now
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1.1.4. Ajax & Flash enhancements | |
Ajax So far, asynchronous Wiki edit page display and submit, and ))MyTiki(( info and preferences display (information displayed in context without total page refresh being necessary).
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1.1.5. Authentication | |
Authentication has received a major enhancement. Some new options
1.1.5.1. OpenIDYou can test OpenID at http://wiki-translation.com 1.1.5.2. ShibbolethShibboleth Authentication has been added. |
1.1.6. Banners | |
Banners Now handle Flash |
1.1.7. Calendar | |
Calendar feature has been split into two: (1) Action calendar and (2) events Calendar, with a redesigned user interface and many more features, including Feeds feeds, among others. |
1.1.8. Category | |||||||||||||||
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1.1.9. Contacts (in MyTiki) | |
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1.1.10. Contribution | ||
Contribution feature allows to let users (or force them to) choose one or many of the contribution types offered at the edit form of several tiki features (wiki, forum, comments, sheets, blogs, ...) before sending the edition/post/data. This is specially useful in educational scenarios where users can be reminded each time to chose the type of contribution they are doing; and later on, teachers can easily review a summary of contributions recorded by Action log feature, shown as numbers of type and amount of information added or deleted by each student, or groups of students, in a given time frame, in objects related to one or many tiki Categories. ![]()
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1.1.11. Copyright management | |
Copyright management has been added on blogs, articles and faq ![]()
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1.1.12. File Galleries | |
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1.1.13. Free tags | |
Tags can now be used in addition to categories. ![]()
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1.1.14. Forums | |
The forums went trough a redesign of the user interface and administrators have more control over the way forums are handled. Moreover, when you start a new thread you have the option to select monitoring that thread just at posting time (and selected by default): ![]()
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1.1.15. Fullscreen mode | |
Fullscreen When activated on the Admin Features page, a Fullscreen link enables the site user to see the center part of the page — without the top and bottom bars or side columns — displayed full window size. This is useful for viewing large images, wide tables, etc. |
1.1.16. Image Galleries | |
"Eye candy" image browsing with Shadowbox has been implemented. Size and scale of galleries can be global in admin image gal
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1.1.17. Menus | |
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1.1.18. Microformats | |
You can test microformats at http://wiki-translation.com and get more information on dev:microformats. |
1.1.19. Modules | |
New links in module what is new
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1.1.20. Multimedia support | |
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1.1.21. Newsletters | |
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1.1.22. Notepad enhanced | |
(add some short info, screenshot/s, and link to full documentation of the new feature here) |
1.1.23. PDF generation | |
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1.1.24. Protect email against spam | |
A new option to protect all emails in all wiki pages. For more information, see Spam Protection |
1.1.25. Section Edit (in wiki) | |
You can edit wiki pages by sections limited between headers of equal level. See Edit by Section for more information. ![]()
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1.1.26. Shoutbox enhanced | |
User can modify their messages in shoutbox. Shoutbox can use CAPTCHA to reduce spamming by scripts. (module and main page) ![]()
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1.1.27. Tell a Friend | |
Tell a Friend A link is displayed on each Tiki page that can be used to email the page (actually its link) to someone. |
1.1.28. Tests | |
This feature allows the user to record a web session and to replay it. On replay the pages will be compare to see if some changes occurred in between. See TikiTests for more information. |
1.1.29. Time Zone handling | |
The time zone handling has been revamped. |
1.1.30. Translation | |
1.1.30.1. Interactive Translation of Tiki interfaceAny user can translate any missing string on the fly through clicking to a sign next to that string. See Interactive Translation for more information. 1.1.30.2. Easily keep translated wiki pages syncronizedTikiwiki allows users in a community to keep translated wiki pages updated and synchronized, without the need to define a master language where all pages shoulb be translated from. Take 5 minutes to watch the interactive tutorial at Multilingual Wiki, and see it live at http://wiki-translation.com while we update doc.tiki.org to 2.0 to let you use this unique feature with our own documentation. 😉 Used in production at support.mozilla.com |
1.1.31. Trackers significantly enhanced | |
1.1.31.1. Full control over layoutForms & reports can now have any layout (codename: pretty trackers) 1.1.31.2. new field types
1.1.31.3. new tracker plugins
Google Map in trackers
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Tracker subscription
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User tracker come in user information
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1.1.31.4. Exporting data improvedThe capability to export data from a tracker has been improved, allowing to select fields, set filters, etc.
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1.1.32. Wiki Auto Save a Draft | |
There is a page draft feature in 2.0 which autosaves the wiki page content periodically, using AJAX
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1.1.33. Wiki page permissions | |
(add some short info, screenshot/s, and link to full documentation of the new feature here) |
1.1.34. Wiki Page Staging and Approval | |
Wiki Page Staging and Approval (where edits can be approved before they go live)
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1.1.35. Universal Wiki edit button | |
1.1.36. Wysiwyg in Wiki pages | |
With FCK Editor: WYSIWYG
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Known issues | |
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Version 3.0 | |
Work has already started on Tiki3, which will be released in April 2009. The main focus of version 3.0 will be further enhancements to the user interface, the admin interface, the theme system and built-in themes.
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