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This is an old revision of ChristianBarthelemy made by ChristianBarthelemy on 2005-01-13 17:51:34.
I am a frenchie working in the USA as "Lead Business Analyst" which means I am interfacing between the IT tekkies and the Business Communities.
My www.airbusnorthamerica.com company uses eRoom through the portals for collaboration and it is an efficient tool. Yet I think we have plenty of space to improve the collaborative work using Wikis.
So I am decided to have a pilot pretty soon available to demonstrate the added value of this concept.
I have been experiencing dozens of open source WikiClones and only a few finally retained my attention.
Among these, Wikka Wiki comes on top.
As I do not want to compete with other tools available in my company, more powerful solutions like TikiWiki are out.
I also like MediaWiki but Wikka is quicker and still has some more interseting features.
Nothing being perfect, I am trying to figure out how to provide a few missing functionalities:
- Sharing calendars (see JwCalendarWithPageCreation),
- Organizing polls,
- Task lists (I like Mike's one: GmBowenWikkaAsPIM) , Issue lists... through an excel like input design (having the possibility to design databases and design the user interface for them?),
- Defining simple ad-hoc workflows,
- Reusing templates for easy creation of similar WikiPages (see CloneHandler),
- Managing attachments to the WikiPages (see FilesManagementSolution),
- Having a "Store and continue" button when editing so that you can save and continue to edit,
- Having a "Search & Replace" function in the editor,
- Having a Find and Replace function to replace things in the body of the Wiki Pages (could help to rename pages as well),
- Having WikiNames being displayed as Wiki Names (better idea at AutoReplace),
- Having the possibility to design database with a user interface,
- Having the capability to check who is currently connected to the Wiki,
- Managing groups of users through the ACLs (proposal at ACLsWithUserGroups),
- Having the possibility to use smileys (Uniwakka like),
- Having the possibility for the page owner to delete it (not only the admin),
- having the possibility to see who is on line using the Wiki (there is a {{users}} action at http://www.euroburners.org/wikka/UsersOnline that looks interesting: anybody knows how it is build?)
- I have usersonline.php and currentusers.php actions which are derived from an action in costal martignier's comawiki software (see my example here ). Costal has (re)distribution restrictions etc. on his products (despite the GPL base from which his wiki derives, he has sections of "original" code....including that for users online) which is why I haven't posted those two actions here. You might try downloading comawiki (which is "free" for non-commercial purposes) and see if you can tweak his action for your own non-commercial interests (don't forget to look at the database table which is needed. --GmBowen
- Having the users defining their own menu: this is available from WikkaMenus but I am using an alternate solution at UserMenus
- Having the possibility to quickly reach any WikiPage previously browsed through a KeepHistory page (I picked this idea from Jean-Marie Griess who did it for Wikini at http://www.arkheia.com/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=PagePrincipale (even if it is in french, you can try browsing several pages and you will understand the principle)
- Lots of good ideas from www.jotspot.com JotSpot a commercial Wiki: email to a WikiPage, WikiForms...
- ...
Anyway, I want to salute the great work done so far :-))
I truly appreciate the work that has been produced so far to deliver what I consider as the best Wiki - and I have tried everything available as open source until end of December 2004 - Well there are some nice features from other wikis I'd like to see in Wikka so one of the way to get them is to contribute!
Here are my contributions so far:
- ACLsWithUserGroups: a nice solution to manage user groups with ACLs
- UrlBeautify: a solution to display John Doe instead of JohnDoe if the user prefers so
- CloneAction and CloneHandler: a simple way to duplicate/clone existing pages (I am very proud because it is officialy part of release 1.1.6.0)
- FilesManagementSolution: a simple and complete solution to manage attachments
- JwCalendarWithPageCreation: I am still not 100% happy with this and will surely work again on it very soon - as it is now, it allows to manage group or personnal calendars through the now official code from JavaWoman
- Hi Christian. My scheduler/month/day view actions are easily "tweakable" to allow sharing....there is code in wikka forum code (around where it says $tok) which allows you to have designated individuals to share access. You could use that code combined with the ACLSgroupmanagement idea to have groups share access....you'd have to play with the security somewhat, but I'm sure it's possible.....like you'd have to check if the users were a designated group member using the ACLSgroupmanagement idea...and then have that page "locked" so only the group manager could add people. Also, I'm currently working at incorporating wikka formatting codes into the calendar code (that would be stripped out for the month view) so that you could see formatted code in the day view. Hope this info is useful. Cheers, MikeB (GmBowen)
- UserMenus: an alternate solution to the one already provided by DarTar at WikkaMenus - I am still unsure which one I prefer
- See my work on sub-menubars here....a "colourful" alternative to regular text menus. -- mike
- I added some open source icons to Wikka
- I changed the wikiedit2 code to have more predefined tags and also smileys
- I built a collapsing solution for html lists (very nice with InlineCommentFormatter)
- I have almost finished the Wikka implementation of this nice calendar - but I think I should rebuild something on top of JwCalendar because it is the official calendar from now
- A java alternative to ShowCsv (my draft proposal is in there)
- I wish I could integrate TinyMCE as an alternative for a wysiwyg edition
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