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ikiwiki 3.20091031 released with these changes
- po: Fix breakage caused by changes to render code.
- mdwn: Avoid trying to use multimarkdown if it is not installed.
- moderatedcomments: New plugin to allow comment moderation w/o relying on blogspam.net.
- When redirecting to a page, ie, after editing, ensure that the url is uri-encoded. Most browsers other than MSIE don't care, but it's the right thing to do.
- Add a spec file to allow building rpm from the source package.
- google: Pass the whole wiki url to google, not just the domain, so that search works correctly for wikis that are located in subdirectories of domains.
I've started using git as ikiwiki's main repository. See download for repository locations.
Note that all the sha1sums have changed from those in previously published git repositories. Blame git-svnimport.
I hope that this will make it easier to maintain and submit patches for ikiwiki.
--Joey
ikiwiki 3.20091009 released with these changes
- parentlinks: Add has_parentlinks template parameter to allow styling the toplevel index differently etc.
- img: Correct bug in image size calculation code.
- img: Fix dependency code for full size images.
- toggle, relativedate: Support templates that add attributes to the body tag.
- Support RPC::XML 0.69's incompatible object instantiation method.
- mirrorlist: Display nothing if list is empty.
- Fix a bug that could lead to duplicate links being recorded for tags.
- Optimize away most expensive file prune calls, when refreshing, by only checking new files.
I've put together a short screencast that covers approximatly the first half of the setup document, and includes a demo of setting up a blog using ikiwiki.
http://kitenet.net/~joey/screencasts/ikiwiki_blog/
.. And now I've added a second screencast. Note that this uses a script that is only available in the as yet unreleased ikiwiki version 2.15.
http://kitenet.net/~joey/screencasts/ikiwiki_cgi_and_git/
--Joey
ikiwiki 3.20091022 released with these changes
- edittemplate: Allow template page name to be specified using anything legal for a wikilink (including eg, leading slashes).
- edittemplate: Work around bug #551499 in CGI::FormBuilder.
- Fix a bug introduced in the last version that caused ikiwiki to skip all files if a sourcedir of "./" was specified.
- Support CFLAGS when building wrapper.
- meta: Gather permalink info on scan pass so it is available to inline when using a template that does not include page content.
I've produced a code_swarm visualization of the first 2+ years of ikiwiki's commit history.
[[!img Error: Image::Magick is not installed]]
PS, while I'm posting links to videos, here's a video of a lightning talk about ikiwiki.
--Joey
notes
Interesting things to watch for:
- Initial development of ikiwiki to the point it was getting web edits. (First 2 seconds of video!)
- Introduction to plugin support, and later, plugin changes dominating code changes.
- Introduction of openid support and the resulting swarm of openid commenters.
- Switch to git, my name in the logs changes from "joey" to "Joey Hess", and there are more code commits directly from others.
Getting the commit log was tricky because every web commit is in there too, so it has to deal with things like IPs and openids. The code swarm log.pl script will munge the log to handle these, and it was configured with code swarm.config.
Video editing by kino, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora, and too many hours of pain.
Audio by the Punch Brothers.
ikiwiki 3.20091023 released with these changes
- inline: Fix raw mode. Closes: #552114
Quick poll: Do you feel that ikiwiki is fast enough on this server, or should I move it to my much beefier auxiliary server?
[[!poll open=no 40 "It's fast enough" 6 "It's too slow!" 4 "No opinion"]]
If you have specifics on performance issues, you might mention them on the discussion page.
The current server is a single processor 2.8 ghz Sepron machine shared among 4 other xen instances, and often heavily loaded by extraneous stuff like spamassassin and compiles. The auxiliary server is a dual processor, dual core 2 ghz Opteron shared with other xen instances (exact number not available from provider), but with little other load.
ikiwiki.info has upgraded to the not yet released ikiwiki 2.30. This version of ikiwiki drops support for subscribing to commit mail notifications for pages. The idea is that you can subscribe to the new RecentChanges feed instead. (Or create your own custom feed of only the changes you're interested in, and subscribe to that.)
So if you were subscribed to mail notifications on here, you'll need to change how you keep track of changes. Please let me know if there are any missing features in the RecentChanges feeds.
Statically building the RecentChanges also has performance implications, I'll keep an eye on server speed..
--Joey
I was asked a good question today: How can a company find someone to work on ikiwiki? To help answer this question, I've set up a consultants page. If you might be interested in being paid to work on ikiwiki, please add your information to the page. --Joey
And here's the first company looking for an ikiwiki developer that I am aware of:
The TOVA Company, a small medical software and hardware company in Portland, Oregon, is looking for developers to add functionality to ikiwiki. We're looking for developers who are already familiar with ikiwiki development, including plugins, and who would be willing to work on a part-time, non-employee, project-based basis for each of the small features that we want. The features we're interested in would obviously be GPL'd, and released to the community (if they'll have them
). Please contact Andrew Greenberg (andrew@thetovacompany) if you're interested. Thanks!
Now you can use git to clone this wiki, and push your changes back, thanks to ikiwiki's new support for untrusted git push. Enjoy working on the wiki while offline! --Joey
News for ikiwiki 3.20091017:
To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
ikiwiki 3.20091017 released with these changes
- Added support framework for multiple types of dependencies, including dependncies that are only affected by page precence or link changes.
- Rebuild wikis on upgrade to this version to get improved dependency info.
- pagecount, calendar, postsparkline, progress: Use a presence dependency, which makes these directives much less expensive to use, since page edits will no longer trigger an unnecessary update.
- map: Use a presence dependency unless show= is specified. This makes maps efficient enough that they can be used on sidebars!
- inline: Use a presence dependency in quick mode.
- brokenlinks: Use a link dependency. This makes it much more efficient, only updating when really necessary.
- orphans, pagestats: Use a combination of presence and link dependencies. This makes them more efficient. It also fixes a longstanding bug, where if only a small set of pages were considered by orphans/pagestats, changes to links on other pages failed to cause an update.
- linkmap: Use a combination of presence and link dependencies. This makes the map be regenerated much less frequently in many cases, so larger maps are more practical to use now.
- Plugins providing PageSpec
match\_*
functions should pass additional influence information when creating result objects. This allows correctly handling many more complicated dependencies. - API change:
pagespec\_match\_list
has completly changed its interface. The old interface will be removed soon, and a warning will be printed if any plugins try to use it. - Transitive dependencies are now correctly supported.
- ikiwiki-calendar: New command automates creation of archive pages using the calendar plugin.
- calendar: Fix midnight rebuild trigger of calendars with explicit month/year.
- calendar: Fix bug in next/previous year/month links, which sometimes linked to an archive page from the wrong year, or were missing.
- git: --getctime will now follow renames back to the original creation of a file.
- calendar: Fix CSS for year calendar to match the plugin documentation.
- Added minimal default CSS for calendar plugin, just highlighting the current day.
- inline: Optimize generation of archives, etc by not getting inlined page content if the template does not use it.
Ikiwiki in svn now has support for using OpenID, a decentralized authentication mechanism that allows you to have one login that you can use on a growing number of websites.
Traditional password-based logins are still supported, but I'm considering switching at least ikiwiki.info over to using only OpenID logins. That would mean blowing away all the currently registered users and their preferences. If you're active on this wiki, I suggest you log out and log back in, try out the OpenID signup process if you don't already have an OpenID, and see how OpenID works for you. And let me know your feelings about making such a switch. --Joey
[[!poll 64 "Accept only OpenID for logins" 21 "Accept only password logins" 36 "Accept both"]]
Ikiwiki has reached version 3.0 and entered a new phase in its development cycle.
The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available in upgrade to 3.0.
The highlights of the changes in version 3.0 include:
- Support for uploading attachments.
- Can rename and remove pages and files via the web.
- Web based setup.
- Blog-style comments as an alternative to Discussion pages.
- Many other new plugins including htmlbalance, format, progress, color, autoindex, cutpaste, hnb, creole, txt, amazon s3, pinger, pingee, edittemplate
- The RecentChanges page is compiled statically, not generated from the CGI.
- Support for additional revision control systems: bzr, monotone
- Support for untrusted git push.
- A new version (3.00) of the plugin API, exporting additional
commonly used functions from
IkiWiki.pm
. - Nearly everything in ikiwiki is now a plugin, from WikiLinks to page editing, to RecentChanges.
- Far too many bug fixes, features, and enhancements to list here.
Thanks to the many contributors to ikiwiki 3.0, including:
Jelmer Vernooij, Recai Oktaş, William Uther, Simon McVittie, Axel Beckert, Bernd Zeimetz, Gabriel McManus, Paweł Tęcza, Peter Simons, Manoj Srivastava, Patrick Winnertz, Jeremie Koenig, Josh Triplett, thm, Michael Gold, Jason Blevins, Alexandre Dupas, Henrik Brix Andersen, Thomas Keller, Enrico Zini, intrigeri, Scott Bronson, Brian May, Adeodato Simó, Brian Downing, Nis Martensen. (And anyone I missed.)
Also, thanks to the users, bug submitters, and documentation wiki editors. Without you, ikiwiki would just be a little thing I use for my home page.
--Joey
I've gone ahead and moved ikiwiki.info to the faster box mentioned on server speed. Most poll respondants felt the old box was fast enough, but it's getting a bit overloaded with other stuff.
If you can see this, you're seeing the new server. If not, your DNS server hasn't caught up yet. I'll keep the old server up for a while too and merge any changes across since git makes that bog-easy.
Please report any problems..
Some people may consider ikiwiki's default look to be a bit plain. Someone on slashdot even suggested perhaps it uses html 1.0. (Yes, an ikiwiki site has survived its first slashdotting. With static html, that's not very hard..) While the default style is indeed plain, there's more fine-tuning going on than you might think, and it's actually all done with xhtml and style sheets.
Stefano Zacchiroli came up with the idea of adding a css market page where IkiWikiUsers can share style sheets that you've come up with for ikiwiki. This is a great idea and I encourage those of you who have customised stylesheets to post them.
I'm also always looking for minimalistic yet refined additions to the default style sheet, and always appreciate suggestions for it.
--Joey
Ikiwiki now has an IRC channel: #ikiwiki
on irc.oftc.net
The channel features live commit messages for CIA for changes to both ikiwiki's code and this wiki. Plus occasional talk about ikiwiki.
Thanks to JoshTriplett for making this happen.
Commits to ikiwiki's source code are now fed into CIA, and can be browsed, subscribed to etc on its project page. Note that changes to the documentation wiki are currently excluded.
Google has accepted ikiwiki as a mentoring organization for Summer of Code 2007.
See our Summer of Code page for projects.
Ikiwiki has reached version 2.0 and entered a new phase in its development cycle.
With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the default configuration:
- The
usedirs
setting is enabled by default. This will break all URLs to wikis that did not haveusedirs
turned on before, unless you follow the procedure described at switching to usedirs or edit your setup file to turnusedirs
off:usedirs => 0,
- OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the
Net::OpenID::Consumer perl module is available. Password logins
are also still enabled by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID
or password logins off via the
disable_plugins
setting.
An overview of changes in the year since the 1.0 release:
- New improved URLs to pages via
usedirs
. - OpenID support, enabled by default.
- Plugin interface added, with some 60 plugins available, greatly expanding the capabilities of ikiwiki.
- Tags, atom feeds, and generally full-fledged blogging support.
- Fully working utf8.
- Optimisations, approximately 3.5 times as fast as version 1.0.
- Improved scalability to large numbers of pages.
- Improved scalable logo.
- Support for additional revision control systems besides svn: git, tla, mercurial.
- Some support for other markup languages than markdown: rst, textile.
- Unit test suite, with more than 300 tests.
By the way, some other pages with RSS feeds about ikiwiki include plugins, TODO and bugs.