WxWiki:Feedback

What do you think the wxWiki lacks? What should be done different? Put it down here and see what other people think...

Requested Improvements

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In Progress

• We could shorten url's to: http://wxwidgets.org/wiki/Table_Of_Contents with apache rewrite rules. See: Short MediaWiki URLs and Alternate Short URL Method (someone should check out if that's deployable in .htaccess). Shortening it further to http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Table_Of_Contents if sf.net vhosts allow this.
  • I've tested this with a MediaWiki installation on a different SF.net hosted project page, and the results look good. Here's the URL to the project page it was installed on: <http://timap.sourceforge.net/>. Testing it even further, I setup a vhost to test the possibility of using "http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/": <http://timap.ibaku.net/> (points to the same installation and keeps the vhost while browsing). All these changes can be done while still keeping backwards support for the current URLs making sure not to break anyone's current external links. --Tierra 12:38, 29 April 2006 (PDT)
  • Taking this one step further, I registered <http://wxwiki.org/> a while back (it currently just runs mod_rewrite to forward to the current wxWiki installation) and we could even go straight to using that for extremely short, pleasant links. Using wxwiki.org begs the question about not advertising that the wiki is hosted by wxWidgets on the main wxwidgets.org site, but the devs have also expressed the feeling that the wiki is more strictly an additional community resource site and will not use it for any sort of official documentation links on the main site. It would be a good idea to discuss this further on the wx-discuss mailing list before implementing the short URLs to see about jumping straight to using wxwiki.org. --Tierra 12:38, 29 April 2006 (PDT)

Done

• A new template to provide automatic code highlighting and linking wxWidgets classes and global functions (if possible) to either they're respective official documentation or wiki page if it exists (which will in turn have links to the official docs eventually).
  • This couldn't be done with a template, but was still added as a MediaWiki source highlighting extension with wxWidgets documentation support. See Help:Editing for information on usage.