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OpenWikiNG's aims are to:

  1. Produce a bug free version 0.1 of the OpenWiki code
    1. Add the 'bug fixes' and the most obvious features
       mentioned on the OpenWiki site
    1. Document the code, ie the different parts of ow.xsl
    1. Do a change log to show what has been added / changed
    1. Make the 'raw' changed files available, and rebuild
       a version using an installer programme
  1. Promote discussion of what changes / features are desirable to the code
  1. Work towards the next versions!

PaulRobertson 7 March 2004

As of January 2008 the openwiking.com site has been terminated. Last message published there read:

The main reason is that the ISP is terminating his bussiness 
and i (sEi) have no intention to move and continuing the 
support of the site. If anybody from the developer team is 
willing to take over its ok with me.

NOTE: The project will STILL be hosted at sourceforge so 
its not totally dead.

You can still get Open Wiki NG from

SourceForge.

Project OpenWiki NG

Open Source Project Open Wiki NG - a compact ASP Wiki using XML that is easy to set up. Installs with MSDE database but can use SQL Server, My SQL, MS Access and other DB's, 2 way RSS support, attractive layout and very customisable.

Development Status: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Environment: Web Environment
Intended Audience: Developers, Education, End Users/Desktop, Information Technology, Legal Industry
License: Open Software License
Natural Language: English
Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000/XP
Programming Language: ASP
Current OpenWikiNG Dev Server
Current OpenWikiNG CVS Snapshot Server

User Wiki/Forum and Discussion Board

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New pre-alpha version 2007 for download
OpenWiking.com is now LIVE
First release will be OpenWiki2004
Public email for OpenWikiNG
Public Forum created
New plugin, Documentation updated
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2004

June 2004

Well I'm trying to help revive this. I have:

eMailed everyone that I have an email address for
Joined the SF dev team
Set the SourceForge project's home page to Jeroen's site (Site removed, and the SF homepage is already changed).

so far:

Jeroen Roeterd has set up a Plone discussion site (See the remark above, site removed)
I have set up a live server for development from the SF CVS
I have set up an FTP server for developer access

still to:

Get WinCVS? and Putty to talk to CVS at Source Forge (I'm following this excellent how-to)

Listed 'How-To' was out of date, updated link to current Source Forge documentation for WinCVS?. -- Oddible

Update Now done. The module is openwiking. The owclassic module remains for anyone that wants to checkout Lauren's original code easily.

progress:

Plugin architecture looking good.

All plugins optional
A <ShowPlugins> macro to show what is installed, and what is active
An easy API for developers to add new plugins

12 June 2004

CVS updated with plugin code. module is openwiking
First plugin patch published on SourceForge
Coloured text added (in mywikify.asp) CVS Updated
<SystemInfo> macro updated with plugin report
SQL server database installer in progress

14 June 2004

Code to serialise pages added to CVS

Todo: Deal with internal links (ow:link name=')

16 June 2004

Included fix for free-link searches with spaces
Constructed ASP page to update DB with pagehits field
Added pageHits plugin
Updated CVS OK

18 June 2004

Added WYSIWYG plugin (code by Paul Robertson)
Added autoComment
Added autoDeprecate
Updated CVS OK

19 June 2004

Added 'UpALevel?' in XSL
Added Calendar macro
Added 'Pretty Inter Wiki' code
Added 'TAB key = 2 spaces' code

Updated CVS OK

23 June 2004

Added RefererList? plugin
Added paragraph formatting

><( This paragraph is **centered**. )
<-( This paragraph is **left-aligned**. )
->( This paragraph is **right-aligned**. )
<>( This paragraph is **justified**. )

Added font formatting !-Smaller Text-!
Moved colours code to wikify.asp

Updated CVS OK

25 June 2004

Added popularity macro {{<TitleHitIndex?(n)>}}
Added Daniel Flippance's PrettyWikiLink? code

Updated CVS OK

26 June 2004

Openwiki NG now has an email address: mailto:openwiking@gmail.com
Added Import and Export Interwiki<->cvs file

30 June 2004

Coloured text syntax changed to {r}This is red text{/r}

7th July 2004

Admin pages done

9th July 2004

Added loads more macros

13th July 2004

Merged stylesheet - added new styles and logo

17th July 2004

Added Bad Link List plugin.

When active, this plugin replaces all spam links on the 'bad link list' with any specified alternative. The list is in the DB, but managed via a simple CSV file.
Updated CVS OK

19th July 2004

Updated and optimised BadLinkList? plugin
Added <BadLinkList> macro

Updated CVS OK

21st July 2004

Updated Init db page (so database is now empty)
Updated css and systeminfo macro

Updated CVS OK

22nd July 2004

Added local:image.gif, localleft:image.gif and localright:image.gif directives,

: where 'image.gif' is an image file stored in OPENWIKI_UPLOADDIR

Updated CVS OK

3rd August 2004

Added <ShowMacroList> macro

This macro displays an ordered list of all Macros available on the Wiki

It does not indicate which macros require parameters

Updated CVS OK

5th August 2004

Added HelpMacro macro and CSV file with help information
Added context-sensitive help for macros

Updated CVS OK

7th August 2004

Added <ProgressBar(width,percent)> macro. (Thanks to Per Nilson for the code)

Updated CVS OK

11th August 2004

Added '@this' token which is replaced by the name of the current page
A link like [@this#myanchor Go to myanchor] will now link to an anchor on the same page, and will survive renaming.

Updated CVS OK

12th August 2004

Added an extra parameter to the <include> macro.
<include(mypage,1)> will suppress the [goto mypage] display at the fott of the page
Ironed out MSAccess database plugin incompatibilities

this Dev Wiki is running from an MSAccess DB
Updated CVS OK

13th August 2004

Added a Default Welcomepage Optional Feature
Added local image url capability (local: localleft: and localright:)

Updated CVS OK

Fixed cAutoComment bug

14th August 2004

Fixed graphical skin 'Bookmark' bug

15th August 2004

Optimized skinning procedure

16th August 2004

Fixed showing bookmarks on (graphical skin) attachment page bug
Fixed minor error in WYSIWYG editor
Added @parent token to referece a parent page from a subpage

17th August 2004

Added Simple macro that displays the value of OPENWIKI_BUILD

19th August 2004

Added relative month code to <Month(n)> macro
Paragraph alignment

Introduced alternative syntax
Placed code earlier in wikify chain

More bugfixes for the graphical skin XSL:

Enabled 'Show other Revisions'
Enabled attachments count
Fixed broken <include(1)> display
Fixed 'Show current Revision' showing on current revision of page

Added syntax for externally-referenced images
Fixed bookmarks showing up in 'changes' bug in 'graphical' skin
Fixed syntax2 for paragraph alignment

23rd August 2004

Added lots of optional parameters to the <SystemInfo> macro. List:

<SystemInfo([buildnumber | skin | plugins | pages | revisions | pagehits | mostpopularpage | uploadmethod | database | version | title | timezone | deprecatedays | bookmarks | attachments | imagelibrary | html |imageextensions | docextensions])>

24th August 2004

Added <ActiveSkin(SkinName[,1|2])> macro. Skin switching on-the-fly!

25th August 2004

Added <AddBookmarks(PageName @this/SubPage @parent ---- PageName1[,Custom Menu Heading])>

@this = Current Page Name
---- = Horizontal Line Seperator
@parent = Parent page name of a SubPage?
[ ] = Optional Parameter - if missing then 'Page Bookmarks' is displayed
,Custom Menu Heading = Extra bookmarks menu heading text

only

26th August 2004

Added sentence splitting and joining tokens:

This is a line _

<br>

This is a line +

Added @this tokens:

[@editthis Edit this page]
[@xmlthis Look at this page in XML mode]
[@printthis Look at this page in print mode]
[@attachmentthis Attach a file to this page]
[@historythis Look at the history of this page]
This page is called @this
The parent of this subpage is @parent
To link to an anchor on this page, use [@this#bottomofpage Anchor Link]
To link to an anchor in the parent page, use [@parent#bottomofpage Anchor Link]

2nd September 2004

Categories have arrived!

You can define up to 20 of your own categories via the config file
These categories appear in a drop-down list in edit mode

The default for a page is 'No Category'

According to the chosen skin and configuration options:

Category name appears as text
Category appears as a (user-chosen) graphic

New macro <CategoryIndex> displays all pages listed by category

7th September 2004

New macro: <IncludeOpenWikiPage(remoteServerRoot,remotePageName)>

Allows you to display virtually any page from another OpenWiki server inline.

All links work in the included page

15th September 2004

Macros to List available system images and icons, and display them
Emoticons revisited:

All emoticons have the syntax :emoticonname:
New macro <ListEmoticons> shows all emoticons and wikisyntax to display them
Add your own new emoticons without having to change any code

18th September 2004

Added <Highlight> and <Highlight(pageName)> macros

Presents a small input field for the user, allowing them to highlight all occurrences of any word within either the current page, or a named page.

20th September 2004

Added <WebFrame(URL,[size])> macro

Displays an external web page in an IFRAME

22nd September 2004

Enhanced <TableOfContents> macro.

<TableOfContents(1)> will build the table from headings after the macro.
The default behaviour is to list all headings. This has been irritating me for some time

1st October 2004

Lots of error trapping for macros.

to 7th October 2004

Accessibility features added to all search forms
Access to unlimited parent pages via syntax '@parent/@parent/@parent/...../@parent'
New macro <Execute>
New macro <Hilight([pagename])> allows user to hilight words in a page
New macro <CreateHomePage(theTemplate)>
Macros accept page @tokens
Accepts protocols callto:// and waste:/

Missing icon for https:// Tested with SSL server OK
Debugging config for MSAccess deployment added
Switch to simplify page names. No more pages like "Invisible_Underscore", "+SandBox" or "MY%20Page"!
Added ServerDown? config - for use when backing up DB

9th October 2004

Added <style(yourstyle1;yourstyle2; etc)>span of text in a different style</style>

10th October 2004

Added <position(top,left)>Text or Image</position>

This is the div position:abolute:relative tag encapsulated

11th October 2004

Added: Summaries (cUseSummary? = 1) This is a page precis field for each page
Added: Default pages built-in
Added: Auto-update from openwiki classic
Modified: Default plugin status
Modified: Default Page Names (to Home Page/<newpagename>)
Added: Auto-generate default system pages if absent
Modified: Default MSAccess DB to openwikidist.mdb
BugFix?: Many MSAccess bugs fixed
BugFix?: Edit window was ignoring user prefs cols and rows
Modified: plastic skin to show Summary fields

openWiking is still in active development!

13th October 2004

2005

16th January 2005

Updated editor from prob
Download build 20050116
OpenDev updated to this build! - test it!
Simple Access Out-Of-Box Installation

21th January 2005

New macro: ShowFile (display a file from the server in a wikipage)
Badges now in editor
Download build 20050121.1

11th February 2005

Editor updated
Added Firebird Database Support
New graphics
Option for including 'old' smileys
Download this version: Download build 20050211.1

25th February 2005

Editor updated
several bugfixes
new plugin: UseIncludes - For including data to the html skin (outside the actual page)
plugin InlineXml: new optional second parameter - See demo: Userdefined XSL in DevWiki
Download build 20050225

20th October 2005

Open Wiki NG.com live soon - Development of owng v. 1 in final phase

13th November 2005

http://www.openwiking.com/ is now ONLINE (Openwiking at one place) (no longer active -- 4 Jan 09

2006

2007

6th March 2007

Lots of stuff added and fixed. Development stalled but current version is stable
TAG clouds added (nice stuff!)
Problems running on a w2k3 server, else all is perfect

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About Categories

About categories: why would you need to define them in the config file? Wouldn't it be nicer if anyone could define them on a special Categories page and/or using a special pattern?

These categories are Page Categories (or Page Types) and would normally be defined by the WikiAdmin?. Current defaults are like 'System Page', 'Menu Page', 'Protected Edit', 'Testing Page', 'Temporary Page' and so on. Their power appears in the macros <CategorySearch?> and <CategoryIndex?>, where you can display all pages of the same type, regardless of their content. Displaying all the 'Protected Edit' pages for example (which may have content from many subjects/categories)

As the Page Types depend on the type of Wiki, rather than the type of content, it makes sense for the WikiAdmin? to set them up.

Question about the Welcome Page option

How is the Welcome Page supposed to work or what is it for? I thought it might be a page that anyone without a cookie (who therefore hadn't already saved User Preferences) was redirected to instead of the Home Page. I've tried it and it doesn't seem to work like this.

: The Welcome page option works like this. If you have given a welcomepage name and a visitor request the site (not a specific page) he will 'get' the welcomepage. Its often good to have a welcomepage for 'new' visitors (not requesting any specific page) and by that keeping the 'frontpage' clean for welcome information. Its an optional feature, and if you do not want this functionality then just keep the 'welcomepage' parameter empty. I hope this brings some light over your question, if not then please write again. --/sEi

Thanks for the clarification - David

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