If you live in Europe you have probably noticed the recent attack of winter. It's not surprising, since it's already December. Nonetheless there are big problems with the public transport and huge traffic jams in almost every city in Poland. Literally, we're stuck.
Nevertheless the Wikidot team is so awesome, that we always get to work on time. Even if we cannot make it to the office, we work remotely. Do you know what's the most significant difference between the external world and Wikidot? While everything is covered with a thick layer of snow, cars are not working, people are freezing on bus stops — Wikidot is up and running regardless of weather conditions. So are we :)
Recently, we did a couple of important things on Wikidot. The most useful and demanded by our users thing was adding the pagination to long forum topics. All threads are now divided into pages with 10 top-level posts per page. Cool, isn't it? Now forum threads can count hundreds of posts and still be easy to navigate :)
We also added support for 640px-wide thumbnails for images from Flickr, date rendering in page preview and support for Greek and Cyrillic alphabets in 3D tag cloud. We also fixed a couple of irritating bugs like page rating not updating automatically after voting.
At the moment, we're working on My Account UI, XMLRPC API and fixing bugs when they appear.
As a bonus, we're adding a photo explaining why we're not getting late to work. We have already changed tires to ultra-snow ones, putting casual drivers to shame. :-D
Take care and have a great time in snow fights!
WOHOO! Yay for thread pages, thanks guys! :D
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Thanks to Wikidot, we've already organized one of those. It was everything we'd hoped for.
Personnaly, I don't like pagination be on Wikidot sites or elsewhere on the net. For example, I cannot search for "gerdami" on a forum with Ctrl-F and simply type F3 for next hit.
Anyway, thanks for those who like this behaviour.
That is what called very professional…despite of the weather you manage to work and perform yout duties…Good very nice…
In the UK Midlands here. On Friday I came home at midnight in driving snow on the one lane of the motorway that was clear. It was finally enough to cover the grass. Then I woke up on Saturday morning and it had all gone. We don't do snow tires here.
Regarding pagination of threads, I think it only makes sense if all the replies are appended to the end of the thread, and there should be a way to turn it off, maybe even when viewing the page.
A big thumbs-up for the XMLAPI work. Please,, please, please make files.save-one a priority; it's the only thing stopping me building a very powerful site-cloner and finishing my CSS-generator.
I like the pagination, but maybe it would be useful to have the possibility to switch it on or off, and to decide how many posts per page one wants to see…
As far as I am concerned, a big thanks for the Cyrillic 3D tagcloud! :) I really do appreciate.
(After reading all your snowy posts, I almost feel guilty being here, at 22ºC, without even the necessity to turn the heater on… :P I just hope it'll go on like this through the whole winter… I hate being cold and frozen…)
What's this? I would appreciate an explanation, because maybe I also need it, and I still don't know! :)
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It's been pouring down here lately… half the ocean's been tipped onto Australia ;-) Flooding in many areas. We even got hail the other day!
No snow of course, there never is down here. Only see the stuff in pictures and movies.
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It's the Developer API, where you can write a program on your PC to read and write Wikidot pages. At the moment you can do lots, but you still can not upload a file to Wikidot. Without that My CSS generator requires an awkward manual step to upload all the background images.
Similarly it would be nice to have a smart cloner, so instead of having to choose a single feature to clone when creating a new site, we could pick and mix several features. Or we could backup and restore a site.
Hey Brunhilda, it's what STE uses to connect to Wikidot. Without the XML-RPC API, it wouldn't be able to import/export pages or preview them! :)
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Thanks, Leiger! Thanks Rurwin, too, but unfortunately, I didn't understand much — I need as simple explanation as possible (it's obvious leiger already knows how mi mind works… :P)
I think I wouldn't need it… My knowledge is not so advanced… :P
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
Well if you wish to learn how to use it, then you can learn. Otherwise you don't need to worry about it :)
Basically, it's something that Wikidot has installed… Rurwin and I (and others) can talk to it and tell it what we want it to do, and it basically looks at Wikidot's servers and sends us back the info we want (e.g. sends back a Wikidot page , or maybe it will create a page if we tell it to).
^^ Really simplified explanation :)
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that is top proffesional work :)
In other forum software, it is often a user's choice, notably on the order "the most recent first" or "the oldest one".
As owner of the site you can choose which order comments are displayed in.
This doesn't apply to the actual forum though, and users can't choose their own ordering method.
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