Jay Cooke (8.05)

Intro

Deki Wiki Jay Cooke (8.05) is a community-feature oriented release, coinciding with MindTouch's development for Mozilla's Developer Center. It contains wiki management features traditionally found in large public community wikis, such as IP address & user banning, multi-page restore, and polyglot support. This release also contains MindTouch's MediaWiki to Deki Wiki converter (licensed under the GPL).

Status

Released: July 31st, 2008 (8.05.2b), July 17th, 2008 (8.05.2a), July 2nd, 2008 (8.05.2), June 3rd, 2008 (8.05.1), May 27th, 2008 (8.05.1 RC1), May 6th, 2008 (8.05), April 28th, 2008 (8.05 RC2), April 22nd, 2008 (8.05 RC1)
Revision: MindTouch SVN r. 9723 (8.05.2b), r. 9562 (8.05.2a), r. 9320 (8.05.2), r. 8863, (8.05.1), r. 8733 (8.05.1 RC1), r. 8455 (8.05), r. 8323 (8.05 RC2), r.8230 (8.05 RC1)

Overview 

Deki Wiki Jay Cooke (v8.05) is the latest release from MindTouch. This release, driven by MindTouch’s development for Mozilla’s languages Developer Center, contains many features required to power and manage a vast, unique community like Mozilla’s.

Unlike other wiki deployments, Mozilla’s site is not in one language, but sixteen. This posed a unique challenge: how can Deki Wiki consolidate all the languages into one deployment while allowing users to effectively discover content in their native languages? The end result is that MindTouch Deki Wiki is the first polyglot wiki – the first wiki capable of effectively distinguishing between different languages within a single system – and we’re incredibly proud to release this work back to the community.

What exactly does it mean for a wiki to be polyglot? On a granular level, each page can be associated with a language – this language automagically localizes the user interface for that page. At a broader level, Deki Wiki allows you to filter content based on language (especially useful for search) with ease. In essence, we’ve taken all the technical complexity associated with multiple languages and simplified it for you. With a polyglot wiki, you no longer need to split up your infrastructure to support language barriers like you have in the past – run it from one instance of Deki Wiki!

Of course, polyglot support was not all we worked on for Mozilla; we also implemented some traditional features: user banning, transactional page restore, talk pages, and a “recent changes” filter.

As always, we place a great emphasis on user experience. As avid users of our own software, we’ve been perennially aggravated by the inability to attach files while editing a page. It’s perfectly reasonable to upload a screenshot when writing technical documentation. Well, you finally can! Not only that, but our new file uploader allows you to do multi-file selection uploads and shows a progress bar. This blows away the previous user experience for file uploads and sets a new bar for others.

We’ve also added preliminary support for OpenSearch, a common syndication format for searches that is backed by companies like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Mozilla. Search results from Deki Wiki can easily be accessed from your browser (like the Google quick search in Firefox), and Deki Wiki can also consume search results from other search engines.

One last note: being an alert, avid fan of Deki Wiki, you’ve probably noticed our versioning went from 1.9.0 (Itasca) to 8.05 (Jay Cooke). To quell any concerns: no, we didn’t secretly release 7 versions of our software that you’ve missed. We’ve decided to adopt the Ubuntu versioning scheme – the first two numbers correspond to the year and the month of each release. Since Jay Cooke officially distrosreleases in May, we’ve labeled it the 8.05 version. We feel that this is a more logical way to version releases, rather than using arbitrary numbers, which can be ambiguous. 

Get the release!

• Source: Deki Wiki 8.05.2 (Jay Cooke) (Source code install guide) (Upgrade instructions) (please be sure you clear your skins cache!)
• VM: 
  • Existing users: Run /usr/bin/updateWiki.sh
  • New users: Download the Deki Wiki 8.05 VM from mindtouch.com, and run /usr/bin/updateWiki.sh after installation
• Packages: RPM packages for 8.05.2 will be ready on July 3rd

$wgEditor = "FCKeditor";

Features

• Improved file uploader - make it easier to attach files to your Deki Wiki
• IP Address/Username banning 
• OpenSearch - utilizing the common open OpenSearch format, Deki Wiki search results can be syndicated to third parties while also pulling in search results from other locations
• Search -Preview search results for pages and files
• MediaWiki to Deki Wiki converter
• Talk pages - similar to comments, but a wiki page attached to every page which allows for discussion about the main page
• Display titles - Allow titles which aren't necessarily paths (currently, editing the title in the editor moves the page - this will allow you to set a display override)
• Multiple language support - a single Deki Wiki instance can support content in multiple languages; having a language set will localize the interface to the proper language, and provide UI views by language (example: Search)
• Page restore - treat deletions as a transaction, and allow undeleting by transaction of pages
• DekiScript
  • added new date (21), number (32), string (23), and culture (4) functions
  • added meta (8) functions for adding meta tags to wiki pages
  • added new web-centric functions (6) for fetching data from text, xml, and html pages
  • added syntax for building maps with dynamic keys (e.g. { ("k" .. "e" .. "y"): "value" )
  • added support for concatenating lists and maps(e.g. { a: 1 } .. { b: 2 }; [ 1, 2 ] .. [ 3, 4 ])
  • added support for accessing xml elements (e.g. xml["//div[@id='content']"])
  • added new # operator for determining the length of lists, maps, strings, and xml selections (e.g. #[ 1, 2, 3], #"hi!" )
  • added new is operator for determing the type of a value (e.g. 123 is num; "hi" is str)
  • added new dekiscript xml elements:
    
    • <foreach var="id" in="collection">...</foreach>
    • <if test="condition">...</if>
      <elseif test="condition">...</elseif>
      <else>...</else>
    • <define var="id" value="expression">...</define>
  • added implicit environment when invoking extension; the implicit environment carries information about the page, user, and site
  • added new wiki (2) functions
  • enabled any dekiscript function to be defined as a content transform
  • enabled added <img>, <ol>, <ul>, <table>, <textarea> as targets for content transforms
  • enabled all functions in an xml extension to be called from other function inside the same extension
  • enabled execution of dekiscript in attributes (e.g. <a href="http://wiki.developer.mindtouch.com/MindTouch_Deki/Release/Jay_Cooke_(8.05)">Pag Linke</a>)
  • enabled autoconversion from xml to str, num, and bool types
  • enabled dekiscript block (i.e. ) to contain muliple statements separated by semi-colon (;)
  • enabled access to function arguments in xml functions without the "args." prefix (e.g. foo instead of args.foo)
  • improved display of error messages during execution
  • improved parsing of complex dekiscript expressions
  • improved function invocation performance
• Page Composition Engine
  
  • added support for multiple content bodies
  • added support for lang attributes in non-template page content
  • improved detection of XSS attacks in dynamically embedded HTML
• Service Management - new simplified SID scheme (e.g. sid://mindtouch.com/2007/12/dekiscript); previous SIDs remain compatible
• 8.05.1: Single sign-on (trusted authentication) - put Deki Wiki into a trusted authentication mode where it accepts credentials from Apache/IIS; this allows for integration with systems like NTLM
• 8.05.1: RSS private feed authentication
• 8.05.1: Signed headers 

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