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    1. 1.1. Potential Roadmap
  1. 2. Requested Features

This page documents features we'd like to get into a future release of Deki Wiki, but do not have a timeline on. When we are building the roadmaps to future releases, we will review this page and pull the features we can get into each release.

Potential Roadmap

  • Revamped dialogs - smoother experience for finding content within a wiki
  • Decouple Xinha - we've relied on Xinha as a Javascript framework, rather than simply as an editor. Given the maturity of other related projects (FCKeditor, TinyMCE, and YUI RTE) we could scrap the Xinha editor for this release
  • Search extensions
  • Transactions in C# - switch database to InnoDB from myISAM and start using transactions for operations
  • Thread Safe
  • Data model improvements
  • Geotagging
  • Microformats
  • RTL Support 
  • OpenID
  • Auto sign-in
  • Editor viewport - Minor UI improvement for editing
  • Support for textual anchor links
  • Guest invitations
  • Support for other langauges in LuceneService (German for example)
  • Optional_Timed_Pages ( something like: Autodelete "this" page /after xx Days/DATE+TIME)
  • Optional Triggered_pages_to_email: Triggered pages changes are "subject" notified to viewers emails (as RSS)
  • Page Readed and complete download(s) logs available to page creator ( reader, date&time)
  • Email PoP3 client: ( Is a simple idea: a guy (Deki user)  sends an email with an attached file to deki wiki : Subject: Page name, body: page text, Attach: file to add )- Deki replies to deki user: Subject: <subject>: Body: Done/rejected[cause]
  • Change the Link image in the editor to a chain
  • Save/Print Multiple pages as PDF, RTF, DOC or straight to the Printer - Have a dialog that allows you to select multiple pages via checkboxes and then save them as PDF, very useful for manuals that are being created in the wiki
  • Video Upload - The ability to attach a video which will give an id below it that can be inserted into the video embed dialog to embed it into the page
  • Ability to add footnotes - Have a style that would allow to add subscript/superscript or similar format for footnotes and bibliographies
  • Add Header and Footers - The Ability to add header and footers to a page mainly beneficial for publishing to PDF
  • Tag Cloud or List of Tags - A page or cloud of all tags being used
  • Invisible Table borders will be visible in edit mode - When you create a table in the editor with invisible borders it will have a light outline so that the borders can be seen when editing, but once you save it is completely invisible
  • Forgot Password Update - If you select forgot password and you don't have your username in the login field it will prompt you for your username
  • Change order of Hierarchy - The Ability to impose different sort factor on the hierarchy, can be similar to how wordpress does it with assigning a number to the page for how it should be ordered in the hierarchy
  • Integration with Forums - The ability to have SSO with forums along with integrating threaded discussions on pages maybe by being able to click on a link that will open a discussion in a forum for the page.  Also ability to change a threaded disucssion into a wiki page
  • Collapse comments/Images/Attachments section - The ability to collapse the sections so that all you see is the title of the section as opposed to the thumbnails, comments, or attachments info
  • Change the Find to Search for searching
  • More "Role management" features - edit/delete
  • Hide pages from Hierarchy but still keep them public, similar to how wordpress handles pages in its hierarchy

Requested Features

Add your requested features here - please try to keep the requested features within the scope of this release's goals (see "Overview" above). Otherwise you can put your feature requests in the Future release page.

  • Integrate Deki Social into the Deki Wiki user profile pages which could create a social networking wiki and allow for a single sign on with related blogs and forums. This would position Deki Wiki closer to what ClearSpace from JiveSoftware offers, but with the flexibility to add whatever blog (WordPress,LifeType, etc.) or forum (phpBB, Vanilla, etc.) software you wanted and at much less cost (free vs $50,000 (?!?) for external communities).
  • Image Preview view on images inserted into a page. This view is the one that you see when you click on a thumbnail of an attached image. If you insert an image into a page as a link, it'd be nice to have it open the same "preview" view instead of navigating to a new page that has only the image. I consider this a social feature as it makes it easier and more user-friendly to share pictures and images. As discussed here: http://forums.opengarden.org/showthread.php?t=363&highlight=link+images
  • Page Preview: note necessarily a social networking feature, but it would reduce the page revision history and make it easier to review changes of a page Unfortunately, as it stands now, in order to view the completed  page you have to save it and if there is an error you hav eto edit the page again. With the options for extensions, mashups and templates a preview feature would be helpful for trail and error or experimentation.
  • Automatic addition of touched pages to watchlist: When a user adds or comments on a page it should be automatically added to the users watchlist and they should get emails.
  • RSS style watchlist email notifications: Email notifications should leverage off the RSS feeds, emails should arrive with either RSS style formatting (highlighting changes etc), or a link to the RSS feed on the wiki which will easily show users the changes.
  • RSS admin email notifications: Administrators can configure broadcast notifcation emails of selected RSS feeds daily/weekly/monthly that go to all users. User profiles preferences should be able to disable email notifications (as should be the case with watchlist email notification).
  • Include Comments!: RSS feeds and email notifications (assuming they have content) should also include users comments (I think currently RSS feeds flag a page as changed but does not include comment text - so it is confusing and conversations about pages do not start)
  • Forum integration: A virtual community is not a real community without a forum where community people can discuss. DekiWiki is a good place to store information, but to discuss it it’s better to use specialized software. There should be external authenticator services for main forum applications (phpbb, vBulletin,…) and sso with them.
  • Wiki Presentations: Integration with solutions that provide creation of slideshows using Wiki content will be ideal. Some alternatives ou there are S5 and Slidy.
     
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I'd suggest MSSQL database support (using e.g. Gentle.NET), cause with the background of already existing AD user integration it even makes more sense to support MSSQL as an option. Gentle.NET makes it possible to let the admins choose which database backend (can even be others) should be used for deki.

See this thread: http://forums.opengarden.org/showthread.php?t=440
Posted 05:42, 12 Aug 2007
It will be great if Itasca can be used offline. Read-Only is OK. For a later release, synchronization with Read-Write will be great...

I also appreciate MSSQL database support.
Posted 06:31, 19 Sep 2007
I would also like to see MSSQL support if that's possible
Posted 15:10, 19 Sep 2007
Support for a non-mysql database is doable but would involve some effort. Almost all of our queries currently to MySql are stored procedures meaning the scope of work would be simply to port those to whatever database you'd like and everything should theoretically work. There are currently ~100 (mostly very simple) sprocs that you can take a look at in the maintenance/archives/ dir. They're txt files starting with sprocs-*.sql

The next challenge would be the ongoing maintenance and additional testing needed to maintain compatibility and changes to the install/upgrade script.

Anyone up for the challenge? :) edited 00:46, 20 Sep 2007
Posted 00:45, 20 Sep 2007
while i'm not up for the challenge of doing it myself, just wanted to add another vote for microsoft SQL support
Posted 15:24, 21 Nov 2007
Since MySQL is open source, free and runs on multiple platforms, I would like the limited resources, time and energy spent on other upgrades first. There are some excellent Windows tools for MySQL. Check out
http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/ and http://www.mysql.com/windows. There is support for Visual Studio, .Net and ODBC. I have used the Administrator and Migration Toolkit with MS Access and was impressed with how smooth the utilities worked.
Posted 15:46, 27 Nov 2007
I'd like to see a BackupWiki option in the control panel that would export site data to a backup file that would be available for download. Then another option to restore wiki from a backup file. Backup data to include all site specific data plus SQL data.
Posted 14:51, 13 Mar 2008
I am missing a feature to delete old users. And i like to see some improvements for AD/LDAP. If i set the role viewer to the AD group XYZ and a user in the group XYZ login then he should also be in the user management in the role viewers. And at least i like to see some improvements for the creation of PDF Files. Maybe you can do it with just PHP instead of ps2pdf/html2ps. I know many Deki Wiki users have under Windows problems to get it working.
Posted 11:44, 28 Mar 2008
Perhaps this feature already exists but is not evident to me, however, the feature of MediaWiki in which links can be placed into the content without being complete or valid. Non valid links show up in read while the valid links appear in blue. This is a nice feature which allows creation of content with placement of links which will be completed later. This makes creation of content flow faster when not interrupted to complete the link details. Non valid links stand out for later review and completion for the author and readers need not click on non-valid links while reading the articles. Using different link colors or icons for external vs internal links would also be helpful.
Posted 20:49, 4 Apr 2008
auroa, this feature is present in my 1.9.0b install and I assume was introduced with 1.9.0. To see it in action open the new link dialog and then search or browse to the place you'd like the new page to be created. Eg Help/Wiki/New will create a link to a New page not yet created, the link will have a dotted line underneath. Clicking it will take you to the new page which is already in the edit mode. I believe this is very similar functionality to MediaWiki and what you're looking for.
Posted 10:05, 7 Apr 2008
I would like to vote for phpBB integration in some way. The comments are section are minimally useful, but a single page can spawn many threads and the comments are not very helpful for that. An integrated login to phpBB would certainly be useful.
Posted 02:34, 15 Sep 2008
Vote++ for Email PoP3 client! SocialText has it but otherwise their wiki is a chore to organize. Deki looks and seems to work much smoother!
Posted 19:53, 10 Oct 2008
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