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November 11, 2006

Update: Nov 13, 2006 10:15

Please read the readme.txt file for instructions on how to setup the wiki.  You have to update your .htaccess file, copy the _folio folder, & load the setupdb.php page to add some tables to the db.  You can not just unpack the files and have it installed.

Embarrassingly enough, I seem to be having troubles with the .zip file (it's always something simple, isn't it?).  The first file got corrupted upon uploading, and the second file was an older version.  I've uploaded the correct version to the file gallery.

Thanks for the patience everyone, please let me know if anyone has further problems. 

 

Hello All;

 

I have updated & re-released the code for my Elgg “folio” wiki add-in.  This version adds a number of new capabilities and bug fixes:

 

* Actions inside of a wiki (including comments) can be syndicated via RSS or viewed in a web page.  You can now authenticate via the address to see private or restricted posts.

* Pages can now be deleted

* Pages can be moved to a different place in the page hierarchy

* Page permissions have been enhanced.

* A Page’s history can now be seen, and an easy ‘rollback’ feature has been added.

 

As before, the wiki editor uses a wysiwyg rich editor window, pages are organized hierarchically, and both people and communities can setup their own wikis without having namespace conflicts with others.  Pages can be commented upon and set to a variety of permission levels,

 

I have also released the code to a ‘subscribe’ add-in that provides global rss for Elgg.  Blogs, blog comments, files, and wiki events are all now trapped and can be viewed in a single location.  This also supports authenticated RSS through a web address.  The package for this also includes a sample new frontpage to show recent activity in the system.

 

If you would like to see a demo, go to our site at http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/tndy4010/page/ to see the wiki in action, or to http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/garrettn/activity/html/ to see an example screen with recent activity.

 

We also have a chatbox feature running, but I don’t want to just post the code since I’m not sure about the licensing issues.  If you’d like a copy, email me off of the list.

 

This code has been tested on  my WinXP dev box and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server.  Stan Stanier had problems running an early beta release on Windows Server 2003, but I haven’t been able to duplicate any problems on my boxes (possibly because he is also running a slightly-modified version of elgg?).  If anyone has a Win2003 box, I’d appreciate any testing you can provide.   In particular any error messages you can give me would be great.  Aside from the Win2003 problem, this code has been running for over a month on our RHE Linux box without any problem. 

 

To download code, please go to my Elgg files at http://elgg.net/garrettn/files/

 

Nathan Garrett

Keywords: add-in, addin, wiki

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November 16, 2006

Okay, this is just too cool.

http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester

Tell it a book that you read, and instead of showing similar ones (aka Amazon) it will display ones very much different.

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