Help Wanted
This page is pretty ancient and badly out-of-date. It needs total refactoring, or some still-relevant pieces should be moved to other pages, and this one deleted. --JavaWomanThis is an open list of features that have been requested by users. [Not necessarily in order of priority]
For more feature proposals, see the CategoryDevelopment.
Open
Posted on 28 Nov 2004:
- The docs included with Wikka are pretty lousy. Anyone care to update them?
- The remore include function now already takes care of a lot of documentation - I think all you need is a reference to that;
- I'll take care of documentation of all the actions in the code so that both user documentation and developer documentation can be generated from that (with a new action) - see DescribeActions - I'll start with the "core" actions, a little parser to pull out the end user docs version and an action; note: developer documentation can then be generated from the same source with phpDocumentor;
- eventually we could make phpDoumentor-generated documentation available on this site when more of Wikka is documented that way: the idea is that code should be self-documenting - external documentation has a way of "losing touch" with what it is describing (part of the problem we have now!)
- actions are merely a good place to start (not to end :)); I'll also write some pages about how to include documentation in the phpDocumentor format. --JavaWoman
- Spaces-to-Tab improvement needed: Any ideas on how to have tab conversion not apply to sections of code? In other words, sections of code should be left untouched. This has been requested by a couple people, and it makes sense to me. Any reasons not to make this change?
Here's the line that does the conversion. It's in \handlers\page\edit.php:
$body = preg_replace("/\n[ ]{4}/", "\n\t", $body);
- Ability to create "sections" to allow a "backlinks" style navigation bar.
An example of this could be:
Home > Countries > Europe
This would allow for pages to have a more defined structure relating them together. [SimonKnight]
- Syntax highlighting for Java codesnippets. [MarkHissinkMuller]
- Support for various table implementations. [MarkHissinkMuller]
Assigned or In Progress
- where has the lovely "don't cache" checkbox in the editor gone. it's not bad to flag minor changes in some way like this. [DreckFehler]
- Yes. This was a lovely distraction for me for a few months that derailed the development of Wikka.... but it still has a fond place in my heart, and will be coming back at some point. Work in progress by JsnX
- Table of contents for a particular page (in Wacko {{toc}}) [MarkHissinkMuller]
- almost done. works fine with mindWiki, but needs migration work to pass it over to wikka. check it out at mindWiki: wikka toc assigned to DreckFehler
For Future Long-term Consideration
- Multilanguage, WikkaInternationalization, HandlingUTF8
- Ability to select which languages are loaded on initial setup of database. [MarkHissinkMuller]
Done
- Ability to add users to "groups" which could then be used in simplifying ACLs and in providing an index page of members of that group. [SimonKnight] and [MarkHissinkMuller]
- this is already solved by a cute wakka-modification. seems to work fine. almost done ;). -- DreckFehler
- Page refactoring (ability to rename a page and have all links to that page updated with the new name; maybe dangerous). [MarkHissinkMuller]
- huh! there's a lot to do without link adjustment (which isn't done with a single sql-query). mindWiki has instead the ability to store a special redirector under the old pagename and this way it keeps the links working. but this feature should be handled with care! done- DreckFehler
- also an old feature: convert four spaces to tabs while saving because opera and firefox don't support tabs in html forms
- It's coincidental that you mention this, because I just made some tweaks in this area today. Converting four spaces to tabs has always been in Wikka--it just hasn't been advertised. It was located in the Edit Handler, but I've moved it to the wakka formatter. Let me know if you have any issues with this feature. -- JsnX
- yep! it works again (i must have catched the microsecond you needed to fix a bug). but i don't understand your intention. when i type in four spaces, then i want them to be a tab at this very moment. i am curious what will happen to my crippled tabs in future versions ;)
- OK. It's back to normal.
- Page watching, notification when a page has changed. [MarkHissinkMuller]
- this too is addressed in a wakka-mod (i don't remember who is responsible for it) but it's no big deal to do it from scratch. assigned to DreckFehler
More details still to come....
CategoryDevelopment
