Thomas Weigert
Organization: Missouri University of Science and Technology |
URL: |
Country: USA |
City: |
My tag cloud:
accessibility,
admin_tool,
advocacy,
attachments,
authentication,
blogging,
classification,
competition,
css,
dakar,
diagram,
documentation,
easy_install,
editing,
export,
graphing,
images,
import,
installation,
internationalization,
navigation,
persona,
plotting,
plugin,
rendering,
search,
security,
skin,
stale_content,
statistics,
structured_wiki,
tables,
tagging,
taxonomy,
twiki_application,
upgrade,
usability,
visualization,
wysiwyg

For pointers to TWiki development practices, see
DevelopersNews,
BuildContribCookbook,
TestCasesTutorial,
BuildingARelease,
SubversionReadme,
SVN

Ajax stuff
TWikiAjaxFramework

For more on Dakar, see
DakarDesignPrinciples.

Comments on code quality for plugins are at
ImplementationQuality.
Wiki features worth remembering at
ThomasWeigertDocumentationPointers. Plugins are in
ThomasWeigertPlugins. Pointers to debugging are in
ThomasWeigertDebugging. I am (slowly) collecting info on searching into
ThomasWeigertSearchDocumentation.
Examples of
TWikiApplications in
Sandbox web:
MeetingMinutes,
SearchBookTitles,
SearchBookAmazon,
ChangeRequest,
DashboardWithDynamicInclude,
SimpleFAQ,
DiscussionForum,
HeyHoPress,
IFrameExample,
XslWiki
Current releases at
TWikiAlphaRelease and
TWikiBetaRelease.
Features I need to investigate further:
Wiki extensions implemented or deployed in our system are summarized at
TWikiInALargeCorporateSetting.

Note that much of this is now implemented in Dakar or made available via plugins.
Recent changes in Plugins and Codev
nop DBCachePlugin Description This is a lightweighted frontend to the DBCacheContrib. The provided tags DBQUERY and DBCALL can be used as a replacement for SEARCH ...
nop TimeSincePlugin Introduction This plugin is inspired by the nop WordPress nop TimeSince plugin. It which can be used to display a time difference in a human ...
nop DateTimePlugin Introduction This plugin is an extension of the TWiki variable GMTIME{"format"} (that only allows to show the current date date and time). DateTimePlugin ...
nop RedDotPlugin Introduction This plugin renders a clickable red dot (.) to ease the edit access to a page. The red dot will only be visible if the current wiki ...
nop ReputationPlugin Introduction Plugin for creating and maintaining user reputation in a TWiki site. Reputation is managed by voting topics which makes topic's ...
Feedback on MsWordToTWikiMLAddOn I'm no VBA expert so if you can help out please do! JosMaccabiani 09 Jul 2005 The vwware package in many Linux distributions ...
nop TagCloudPlugin Description This plugin helps rendering tag clouds. From Wikipedia:Tag cloud A Tag Cloud is a text based depiction of tags across a body of content ...
nop FlexWebListPlugin Description This is a replacement for TWiki's standard WEBLIST variable. It is extended to improve the display of hierarchical web structures ...
nop UserInfoPlugin This plugin analyzes the log files of your twiki engine and extracts useful information to be displayed on your site. NOTE: Please respect the ...
Tree Browser Plugin Renders a bullet list or numbered list as a collapsible/expandable tree of nodes. Acknowledgment This plugin leverages the JavaScript tree menu ...
Tree Plugin Useful for dynamic site maps and threads. Syntax Rules % nop TREEVIEW{}% displays topic children in a hierarchical tree % nop TREE{}% synonym of ...
Redirect Plugin You can use this plugin to make easy to type shortforms/acronyms of topic names. For example: Actual content appears under .LightweightDirectoryAccessProtocol ...
RenderTableDataPlugin Separate data storage from display: render table data in any different way. Main features: Pass a custom format to render the table data ...
Attachment List Plugin Displays a formattable list of topic attachments from any topic anywhere in a topic. View permissions are honored: if the user is not ...
Topic Data Helper Plugin This plugin is intended for plugin authors. This plugin is used by TWiki:Plugins.AttachmentListPlugin and TWiki:Plugins.FormFieldListPlugin ...
Form Field List Plugin This plugin offers more options than the predefined variable % nop FORMFIELD{"fieldname"}%. This plugin uses TWiki:Plugins/TopicDataHelperPlugin ...
HostnamePlugin Usage Displays the hostname of the server. Syntax: %HOS nop TNAME% Expands to: Related: HTTP HOST, REMOTE ADDR, REMOTE PORT ...
#VarHOSTNAME HOSTNAME the name of the host See HostnamePlugin for more information
nop FilterPlugin Description This plugin allows to substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions. There are three different types of ...
Spaced Out Wiki Word Plugin Display TWiki links spaced out: WebHome is displayed as Web Home. Or use this plugin to display "underscore topic names" like Topic name ...
nop JQueryTwistyPlugin About a jQuery rework This is a fork of the famous TWiki:Plugins/TwistyPlugin by Rafael Alvarez and Arthur Clemens. Instead of being build ...
Development topic for TwistyPlugin RafaelAlvarez 12 Sep 2005 I have an enhancement request: pass an image to include in the link. Example: a:link.twistyTrigger ...
nop BlogPlugin This is the supplemental plugin for the BlogUp nop TWikiApplication. It bundles some of the features found in common blogging applications that are ...
nop DBCacheContrib Summary of Contents This module supports structured queries over a database built on the fly from the forms in TWiki topics. It does not support ...
XmlRpcContrib XML RPC services for TWiki This package allows to register handlers for remote procedures the same way tags are registered to the TWiki engine. The xmlrpc ...
QuizPlugin One of the things that training design people tell us is that "it's good to checkpoint" during a training course with quiz questions. This is a little quiz ...
RatingContrib This is a rating widget that can support a "line of stars" style input field. Usage In TWiki Install the contrib into your TWiki. You can immediately ...
nop VotePlugin This plugin can be used to build an online voting system, or poll . There are two ways to vote for an item: select : vote for a given choice ...
nop LocalCityTimePlugin This plugin shows the local time of a city embedded in a TWiki topic. The current local time is taken from the Date and Time Gateway at http ...
MeetingBingoPlugin especially the "longer" kind of meetings. Games rules. The game is simple. You create a TWiki topic with one or more lines with the TWiki variable ...
TWiki on Ubuntu HOWTO Install on Feisty or Gutsy Ubuntu is a very popular Linux distribution used by about 6 million people world wide instead of Windows, on both ...
Helsinki Release Released 2010 05 29 Helsinki, Finland Introduction Helsinki Release is the CodeName for the TWiki Release 5.0, TWikiRelease05x00, released on 2010 ...
Georgetown Release Released 2009 03 30 Georgetown, Guyana: Governmental administration. Introduction Georgetown Release is the code name for the TWiki Release 4 ...
TWiki Feature Proposals New feature proposals will by nature be for the work in progress TWiki release code named . When you add a proposal you must create a ...
Istanbul Release Work in Progress Istanbul, Turkey Introduction Istanbul Release is the code name for the TWiki Release 5.1, TWikiRelease05x01. This release will ...
Topic Case Sensitivity Simple enhancement to make TWiki linking and jumping to topics more forgiving. Basically, if you specify a link to a topic and the topic exists ...
Simplify Skin Creation based on Default Templates Goal: Make it very easy for integrators to create a new skin. Background TWiki's target deployment is behind ...
Overview To provide a single unified box which "does the right thing" in handling what is currently done with (a) the go box, (b) the search page and several search ...
Feature Proposal: Regex Search with Keyword Search Motivation When users see a search or query form they expect keyword search because Google is the standard. TWikiApplications ...
Feature Proposal: Implement GET and SET Variables as Convenience Functions Motivation At present, we need to go through CALC to set and get variables. % nop SET ...
Content Access Syntax to Modify Content The ContentAccessSyntax has suggestions on how to query topic content based on a proposed TopicObjectModel. This is a useful ...
Content Access Syntax Introduction TopicObjectModel, AutomaticLinkLabelBasedOnHeading, SearchingSectionsOfTheTopics, NamedIncludeSections, FormattedTWikiFormDataInTopicText ...
Feature Proposal: Allow an Include or a Search to increase/decrease header levels of extracted text Motivation One of TWiki's strengths is the ability to reuse information ...
Feature Proposal: Relative Heading Levels for SEARCH Motivation Same has been done already for INCLUDE, RelativeHeadingLevelsforINCLUDE. Also proposed in AllowIncludeOrSearchToChangeHeaderLevels ...
Feature Proposal: Add format parameter to URLPARAM Motivation I often have the need to write the value of a url param only if that url param is passed. For instance ...
Feature Proposal: Preference for default attachment properties Motivation On my sites, the general policy is that attachments are hidden, and a link is created for ...
Database Store for TWiki Topics Phase 1: Implement database backend as cache to speed up meta data queries (such as recent changes), and operations (such as finding ...
Feature Proposal: Overriding numeric lists Motivation Test: 1 Item 1 2 Item 2 3 4 Item 4 results in: 1 Item 1 2 Item 2 3 4 Item 4 I would expect ...
Feature Proposal: Go back to a previous version of an attachment Motivation It is now possible to rollback a version of a topic under the more topic actions . The ...
Feature Proposal: Wizard like way to become first user and admin Motivation Ease the way you install TWiki Description and Documentation This proposal is triggered ...
Feature Proposal: Topic display name Create the possibility for a display name (the way a topic is shown as link) for every topic. Motivation Display (topic) names ...
Empty Trash There needs to be a way to empty the trash without logging into the server. That method, as mentioned on ManagingTopics, is simply too time consuming and ...
Feature Proposal: Set the Flag to Change Password in next Login Motivation This feature is part of a broader effort to increase TWiki security. When an administrator ...
Feature Proposal: Set and Get Variables Motivation Offer a powerful way to set and get variables with the goal to strengthen TWiki as an application platform. The ...
Feature Proposal: Render form with more attractive appearance Motivation The current form has the name of the form prominently rendered at the very top, bot in editing ...
Move to jQuery http://jquery.com/ TWiki's current javascript has been refactored and unit tested. But it will never be as up to date as other libraries. We should ...
Additional Clone Link in More Section If it is possible to rename and move a topic it shouldn't be impossible to clone a topic (same name different web or different ...
Feature Proposal: Add a finishHandler() for plugins Motivation We do have an initPlugin() that is called right at the beginning. However, there's a complementary ...
Feature Proposal: Add User To Groups On Registration Motivation Add the a ability for TWiki to be configured such that on User registration, the new user is added ...
Feature Proposal: Version Control the LocalSite.cfg file Motivation We version all topics through TWiki then why not LocalSite.cfg. There should be a way to restore ...
Topics of interest
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Activated Plugins in this web are:
SpreadSheetPlugin,
CommentPlugin,
BlackListPlugin,
ChartPlugin,
EditTablePlugin,
GaugePlugin,
GeoLookupPlugin,
HeadlinesPlugin,
InterwikiPlugin,
JQueryPlugin,
LocalCityTimePlugin,
PreferencesPlugin,
RenderListPlugin,
ShareMePlugin,
SlideShowPlugin,
SmiliesPlugin,
TWikiDrawPlugin,
TWikiOrgPlugin,
TablePlugin,
TagMePlugin,
TinyMCEPlugin,
TwistyPlugin,
VarCachePlugin,
WysiwygPlugin
Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables) in topic-specific preferences
Topic revision: r57 - 2009-05-22 - 22:17:00 -
PeterThoeny