A java based (J2SE) wiki and http server I (DaveParker) developed as a learning java project. Currently offline and resting.
Some features:
- the basic WikiFeatures
- InstantNavigator (where selected pages are put on a left window for easy access)
- PagesLikeThis
- Backlinks and forward links for each page shown at the bottom of the page
- a ReverseIndexTree
- Preferences module to activate or disactivate the back-links and the forward links...
- Spell-checker
- InternalTransclusion of pages using iframes
- Use of graphwiz to generate maps for Wiki:VisualTour, forward links, back links, etc.
- Uses Cascading Style Sheets to control formatting; does not use XML/XSL;
- Open editing of .html, Cascading Style Sheets (.css), Java Script (.js), or other text files;
- RSS Feeds from RecentChanges or from a user specified list of pages
- FacetedClassification using Categoryxyz tags
Credits:
? Testing: VickiKerr
On the Downside
Too many overlapping features - more than anyone would use. It would need some thinning out to make the code base more manageable.
As a conclusion to my work on Anno Wiki
To Dave Parker
- I would like to express my deepest apologies to your wife and to your family. When it was obvious that our work together was disrupting your family life, I should have asked you to stop the work and to proceed little by little. I was carried away. I don't mind myself working long hours on a project and I don't think to realize that not every one can do the same. Now I do.
- You have been the best wiki programmer I ever worked with.
- Now, about all the features we have worked on I would say the ones to keep are:
- The trails. This is something I have seen done on other wikis and it's very useful. See for example:
- The opening of current page on the left window. The basic, simple idea was an excellent idea; afterwards I got carried away looking for something better and I drowned the fish as we say in French.
The rest is simply the equivalent of scenes left on the editing table and not kept for the final editing.
- But there is one feature present on Usemod wiki which you don't have on your Anno: the page in a page. It is an excellent and I couldn't picture a wiki without it. I have experienced the concept for a few years on Spooky Wiki.
See:
- I also reached the same conclusion as the people on Meatball. It's not a bad idea to keep comments from a page to another.
- Putting color tags is also a great idea.
Add those two things to your Wiki and it's very workable.
About my request to have a copy of the program, it's all right. I'll pass. I am not working offline with internet based wikis.
Again my apologies and thanks for giving me a rare opportunity to work with a real programming pro. After my work with you I could see who was a pro and who was faking it easily.
To Sunir Shah
Thanks Sunir for letting me use your Meatballs. So to speak... :-) There is no contentieux as we say in French. We just had a misunderstanding a fw years ago. I wished you spoke to Ward afterwards to re-establish the truth. He wouldn't have treated me the way he has.
Please from now on, when you have a conflict with a person, keep the conflict locally and don't ask others to side with you. In other words, don't aggravate the conflict.
You made my life terrible for many months and vice-versa. We were both losers in the end.
As the French song by Gilbert Becaud goes (Je reviens te checher:
Qui a gagné, qui a perdu On n'en sait rien On se retrouve les mains nues.
Who won? Who lost? No one knows In the end we fin ourselves empty-handed
To all Meatballers
And finally to all the Meatballers, old and new, good and bad, French, English and others, Canadians or not: A very happy new year 2008.