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Features

1. Deki Wiki
1. 1.1. Content Creation
2. 1.2. Content Management
3. 1.3. Search
4. 1.4. Attachments
5. 1.5. Versioning and Reversion
6. 1.6. Access Control
7. 1.7. Alerts and Notifications
8. 1.8. Application Administration
9. 1.9. Miscellaneous
2. External References

Deki Wiki

The below list, copied from the MindTouch site feature list

Features that need documentation marked in red text.

Content Creation

Robust rich text (WYSIWYG) editor: An editing experience similar to what you would expect from modern word processor applications.
Full screen editing: With a single click you can remove all application chrome leaving you with only the editor. This removes any unnecessary visual noise.
Undo and redo buttons: With both toolbar buttons and the standard hot keys you can undo and redo changes within the editor.
One click list creation: The editor toolbar provides many one click formatting and styling options. Lists is one of them.
Easily create tables: The editor provides an intuitive wizard for creating and editing tables.
Import Microsoft Office content elegantly: The editor handles copy/pasting elegantly from Microsoft Office applications. It's not 100% accurate in conversion, but it's better than any other web-based word processor available today.
One click page creation: Users can create a page in a single-click on New sub-page.
Link pages with intuitive page link dialog: There are many way to link pages and files. MindTouch is the only offering that provides a sophisticated and easy to use dialog for linking.
Sophisticated embed image dialog: Insert images into the page contents using a familiar dialog box that allows you to browse for the image and change the alignment, word wrap, and size.
Page templates: Easily define and reuse your own page templates for common tasks and content.
Multi-page hierarchical templates: A single page template often is not enough. Only with MindTouch can users can define multiple page hierarchically structured templates. This saves time and ensures consistency.
HTML edit mode: Power user? No problem, edit directly in HTML.
Convert to PDF: Share your pages in PDF format.
Convert to HTML: Convert your pages to HTML and share them with others.

Content Management

Hierarchical page organization: Organize content in an intuitive hierarchical manner just like you've become accustomed to in Windows, Linux or Mac OS.
Hierarchically structured page navigation menu: The page navigation menu provides critical information and function. It allows you to quickly perform common actions on pages and shows how information has been organized.
Page color coding: Every user can create their own color codes for tracking and organizing pages on the navigation pane making it easier to track items that are important to each user.
Page action menu: Quickly move and delete pages.
File action menu: Provides an interface for common attached file operations; such as: move, delete, edit description.
Automatically generated site map: View every page created in a single view.
Popular pages: See which pages are most often viewed.
Page statistics: View statistical information about pages.
Restore deleted pages: Administrators can restore deleted pages.
Restore deleted files: Administrators can restore or purge deleted files.
User pages: Every user has their own page.
User space: Every user has their own hierarchy under their page, which they can elect to make public or private.
Referring pages: On any page one can see which pages link to the page. If the page is linked to, the referring page is at least tangentially relevant.
Image galleries: Any attached image renders as a thumbnail at the bottom of the page. Creating an attractive and useful image gallery.
Move page dialog: Easy to use move page dialog removes minimizes confusion when managing pages.
Move file dialog: Easy to use move file dialog makes managing files easy and intuitive.
Moved pages automatically update: When a page is moved the pages that linked to said page automatically remain linked to the page.
Page transclusions: Embed the contents of another page by reference.
Page section transclusions: Embed the contents of another page's section by reference.
Data transclusions: Embed the contents of an external application or feed into a page by reference.
Built in RSS reader: Expose an RSS feed directly in a page.
Page table of contents: Every page automatically generates it's own table of contents based on the sections of the page.
Page summary: Every link to a page provides a summary of the page when a user moves their mouse of the link.
File summary: Every link to a file provides a summary of the file when a user moves their mouse of the link.
Print preview: See before you print.
Advanced printing: Choose from multiple advanced options when printing.
Logical URLs: Unlike most, MindTouch provides logical addressing of pages.
Resize images: Easily resize images by dragging the image to the desired size (or location within the page).

Search

Advanced search: User can view all results or only specific subsets of the result set.
Search contents of pages
Search contents of files
Search contents of attached PDF, TXT, HTML and other text files
Search files' meta-descriptions

Attachments

File and image attachments: Users can attach any file or image to any page. The attachments are shown at the bottom of the page in a special attachment section.
File freedom: Any file type can be attached.
Attachment meta-descriptions: Easily add a description to files or images that are attached.
Attachment history: Attachments, the date of attachment, and the contributor are logged in all distinct audit logs.
Attachment links update: When a new version of a file is attached, the links that point to that file always point to the most recent version of the file.
Attachment meta-information: All attachments maintain information about themselves; such as size, contributor, and date.
Attached files are indexed for searching: Currently HTML, DOC, PDF, TXT and more are added every release.
Desktop Connector for drag and drop upload of attachments

Versioning and Reversion

Page versioning: Every page retains a complete history of changes.
File versioning: Every file attached is automatically versioned as new versions are attached.
Page and file change details: Every version, whether that of a page or file, retains detailed information of when and by whom the file or page was changed or attached.
In-line comparison of page versions: Page versions can be compared for changes.
One-click page reversions: After comparing two versions of a page, a user can revert to the oldest version in one-click.
Page edit auto-generated summaries: Summaries of page changes are automatically logged in the page history when possible, such as if a page is reverted.

Access Control

Advanced multi-level permissions: Administrator user class has superior permissions to ordinary users.
Restrict page editing
Restrict page viewing
Restrict hierarchies
Highly secure Apache authentication: Authentication can be done directly with Apache web server providing superior security and disallowing even a glimpse of the application.
Secure application authentication:
Alternatively to Apache authentication, administrators can elect to authenticate with the application itself, which allows users to login directly with the application.

Alerts and Notifications

Global log: View a change log of all changes globally sorted anti-chronologically.
User contributions log: View a log of any user's changes sorted anti-chronologically.
Watch lists: Create your own watch lists of pages and view the changes in a simple and intuitive interface that sorts the changes anti-chronologically.
Automatic emails: Users are emailed by the system automatically at critical times, such as at site registration or if they reset their passwords.
Global Feed: Subscribe to site wide changes in an RSS feed.
User contributions Feeds: Every user generates an RSS feed of their changes that can be subscribed to individually.
Watch list Feeds: Every user can create a list of pages to watch. This watch list generates an RSS feed of all changes on these pages and can be subscribed to individually.

Application Administration

Advanced application control panel: Provides an easy to understand web based interface for managing site wide settings.
Configurable network settings: Restart network interfaces and modify settings by using an intuitive web based interface.
Site administration: Quickly and easily manage multiple users and users' status. Search for users, deactivate users, reset passwords and more.
User preferences: Users have individual preferences and the ability to change passwords for themselves.
Real time account status: Account status and services are displayed real-time in the control panel.
Quickly add additional paid services and features: At any time a customer can purchase additional services and features from the MindTouch website. An activation code will be provided and this is supplied in the control panel immediately unlocking the new functionality or service.
One click software update
Manage page redirects: Central interface for managing page link redirects.
Easily customize existing application themes: Administrators are provided with a standards compliant interface for modifying the site's look and feel.
Change application logo: Upload your own site wide logo.

Miscellaneous

Portable: MindTouch Deki can be taken with you on a USB memory drive with sufficient storage.
Adherence to standards: All content is stored in XML.
Customizable menu: Users can add links to the links menu.
Customizable navigation bar: The page navigation bar is fully customizable by users.
Enterprise software stack: MindTouch builds all products on vetted enterprise software frameworks with enterprise strength programming languages and libraries.
Browser based: All you need is a Internet browser. No additional client side installation of software is required.
Easily Integrated: With an adherence to standards and a focus on enterprise languages, tools, and frameworks, MindTouch's products are designed for integration.
Built-in google analytics

External References

http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/DekiWiki (is not up to date?)

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dgerson2003 says:

Where can I find the changelog between versions? Is it not posted on the site?

Posted 13:32, 29 Jan 2008