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Zwiki is a powerful, easy-to-use GPL wiki engine for Zope. It works in
both standard Zope
and CMF/Plone. You can find out all about it at <a
href="http://zwiki.org">http://zwiki.org</a> . <br>
<h2>News<br>
</h2>
A productive month. Outside the product release notes, here's what I
remember off the top of my head -<br>
<br>
The zwiki.org discussion setup has been simplified; the mail lists have
been retired, and the main discussion page is called GeneralDiscussion
again. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://zwiki.org/AboutZwikiDiscussion">http://zwiki.org/AboutZwikiDiscussion</a> explains all.<br>
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I'm offering free experimental zwiki hosting at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://zwiki.org/ZwikiFarm">http://zwiki.org/ZwikiFarm</a> .<br>
<br>
plone.zwiki.org has moved to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://plone.demo.zwiki.org">http://plone.demo.zwiki.org</a> . Old urls
should still work.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://notes.demo.zwiki.org">http://notes.demo.zwiki.org</a> demonstrates a zwiki configured as a
personal notes wiki/outliner. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wikimatrix.joyful.com">http://wikimatrix.joyful.com</a> (and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://squeak.joyful.com/Packages">http://squeak.joyful.com/Packages</a>)
demonstrate a simple matrix/database app using structured wiki data.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://zwiki.org/FrontPage">http://zwiki.org/FrontPage</a> has a new layout and demonstrates blog-style
display of recent pages, inspired by Michael Haubenwallner and others. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://joyful.com">http://joyful.com</a> lists all wikis on this server.<br>
<br>
I've been updating the blog at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com">http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com</a> .<br>
<br>
We now have a wikipedia entry, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwiki">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwiki</a><br>
<br>
A nicer darcs web interface has been installed, see zwiki-org ->
darcs or <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://joyful.com/darcs">http://joyful.com/darcs</a> . There were 106 darcs commits this
month, probably a new record.<br>
<br>
<br>
<h2>Zwiki 0.46.0 2005/10/01</h2>
<h3> Summary</h3>
<p> Per-user mailout policy, skins reorganization, plugin architecture
enhancements, support for boring pages, wicked link syntax, favicons
and separate create form, better logging, many code cleanups &
bugfixes.</p>
<h3> Upgrade notes</h3>
<p> To make your rss feeds and zwiki.org-style blog listings less
junky, do SomePage/setupCatalog to add the new isBoring index.</p>
<p> An mailout_policy folder property with value "edits" overrides the
per-user policy (see below), but this may be dropped in a future
release.</p>
<h3> Changes</h3>
<h4> Installing</h4>
<ul>
<li>fix __implements__ attribute error when CMF is not installed
(#1149, Warren)</li>
<li>make Zwiki startup more robust with strange locales/strange
pythons (#1158)</li>
<li>make zmi add wiki form use a btreefolder</li>
<li>don't break when adding a wiki with id home (#591)</li>
<li>drop unnecessary loading plugins message at startup</li>
<li>don't log a warning at startup when the system locale is None</li>
<li>clarify missing PTS warning at startup</li>
<li>make fit import failure warning at startup less troubling</li>
<li>fix a case where a page upgrade wouldn't get logged</li>
<li>don't break when displaying a page whose page type has been
uninstalled</li>
</ul>
<h4> Configuring</h4>
<ul>
<li>wiki subscriber mail-out, rss feeds and blog listings will ignore
boring pages TestPage, SandBox and their offspring, by default. You can
configure different pages in a boring_pages lines folder property, one
per line. An isBoring index has been added to the standard catalog
fields, run /setupCatalog to add it.</li>
<li>set a true use_double_parenthesis_links property to enable
Wicked-style double parenthesis syntax for freeform wiki links. This is
for world users who can't easily type [].</li>
<li>rename and delete no longer check for a username in addition to
the permissions (though the skin may still hide them without a
username.)</li>
</ul>
<h4> Browsing</h4>
<ul>
<li>the /changes_rss feed now shows the edit diff</li>
<li>misc_/* image paths are now relative to be more robust with
vhosting (#689)</li>
</ul>
<h4> Editing</h4>
<ul>
<li>be sure to create our own recycle_bin even if the parent folder
has one</li>
<li>purple numbers now disabled by default</li>
<li>allow create to be called directly by page management form</li>
</ul>
<h4> Mail</h4>
<ul>
<li>add "all edits" checkboxes to subscribeform. Zwiki can now send
comments to some, edits to others.</li>
<li>reparent now also sends a mailout</li>
<li>remove (new), add (edit) in mailout subjects for clarity</li>
<li>just say "links updated" in rename mailout subject</li>
</ul>
<h4> Issue tracking</h4>
<ul>
<li>use more consistent (property change) in issue mailouts, and
don't say it if no property changed</li>
<li>/issuebrowser was showing filter issues form</li>
</ul>
<h4> General - skins</h4>
<ul>
<li>big skins reorganization to reduce duplication</li>
<li>use a separate createform skin template for creating pages if
present</li>
<li>hide most of the wiki action links by default in standard skin</li>
<li>tweak page management form layout in standard skin</li>
<li>drop unnecessary extra text from page management form in cmf/plone</li>
<li>remove old _ and = access keys from /showAccessKeys</li>
<li>register just the zwiki_standard skin with
FilesystemSiteDirectory when installed</li>
<li>italicise log notes in recent changes</li>
<li>if a <code>favicon</code> object is present, set it as the page
icon in the standard skin</li>
<li>don't let recentchanges break when a page type has been
uninstalled</li>
<li>use the word "page" instead of "subtopic" in the page management
form</li>
<li>don't let non-template objects with the same id hide our skin
templates; improve bad template error</li>
<li>remove the h2 bottom border style</li>
<li>remove stray commas in page templates causing log warnings</li>
<li>drop uploaded and wikinav_portlet templates from plone skin</li>
</ul>
<h4> General</h4>
<ul>
<li>split content/ into wikis/ and scripts/</li>
<li>strip html tags in the page summary, and add renderedSummary
which does formatting and linking</li>
<li>rename all pagetypes' renderXIn methods to format</li>
<li>plugins can now be packages or files</li>
<li>plugins can now override any method in the product core</li>
<li>add support for emacs-style "hooks" for customization by plugins</li>
</ul>
<br>
Best,<br>
-Simon<br>
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