History of the TWiki Implementation
- PeterThoeny - 23 Jul 1998: Installed initial version, based on the JOS Wiki. See WikiWikiClones for details.
- PeterThoeny - 27 Jul 1998: Added automatic links to topics in other TWiki webs by specifying <web name>.<topic name>, e.g.
Know.WebSeach
.
- PeterThoeny - 28 Jul 1998: Topic WebSearch allows full text search and and topic search with/without regular expressions.
- PeterThoeny - 28 Jul 1998: Topic index. (Technically speaking a simple '.*' search on topic names.)
- PeterThoeny - 28 Jul 1998: Topic Changes shows Wiki username instead of Intranet username, e.g.
PeterThoeny
instead of thoeny
in case the Wiki username exists. Implementation: Automatic lookup of Wiki username in topic TWikiUsers.
- PeterThoeny - 28 Jul 1998: Added TWiki variables, enclosed in % signs:
%TOPIC%
(Topic name), %WEB%
(web name), %SCRIPTURL%
(script URL), %DATE%
(current date), %WIKIWEBMASTER%
(Wiki webmaster address), %WIKIVERSION%
(Wiki version), %USERNAME%
(user name), %WIKIUSERNAME%
(Wiki user name).
- PeterThoeny - 31 Jul 1998: Support for quoted text with a '>' at the beginning of the line.
- PeterThoeny - 04 Aug 1998: Warn user if new topic name is not a valid Wiki name. (template file templates/Web/notwiki.tmpl)
- PeterThoeny - 04 Aug 1998: Separate templates for text of non existing topic and default text of new topic. (template file templates/Web/notedited.tmpl)
- PeterThoeny - 05 Aug 1998: Signature and date is inserted automatically when creating a new topic.
- PeterThoeny - 06 Aug 1998: Added server side include of files. Syntax is
%INCLUDE:"filename.ext"%
- PeterThoeny - 07 Aug 1998: Automatic email notification when something has changed in a TWiki web. Each web has a topic WebNotify where one can subscribe and unsubscribe.
- PeterThoeny - 13 Aug 1998: WikiNotation allows also numbers after the
AaA
sequence, e.g. AaA1
is a valid WikiTopic name, but not Aa1
.
- PeterThoeny - 24 Sep 1998: Corrected templates for automatic email notification so that MS Outlook can display attachment as an HTML file.
- PeterThoeny - 13 Oct 1998: Alphabetical topic index in WebSearch.
- PeterThoeny - 14 Oct 1998: Refered-By: Find out which topics have a link to the current topic. Each topic has a |Ref-By| link for that. Note: Only references from the current web are shown, not references from other webs.
- PeterThoeny - 26 Oct 1998: Added revision control using RCS. Each topic has now a list of revisions at the bottom and a revision info, e.g.
Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit | Ref-By | r1.3 | r1.2 | r1.1 }
Revision r1.3: 1998/10/26 01:34:00 by PeterThoeny
- PeterThoeny - 26 Oct 1998: Added preview of topic changes before saving the topic. This was necessary to prevent unneeded revisions.
- PeterThoeny - 10 Nov 1998: View differences between topic revisions. Each topic has a list of revisions (e.g.
r1.3
) and differences thereof (e.g. >
) at the bottom:
Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit | Ref-By | r1.3 | > | r1.2 | > | r1.1 }
Revision r1.3: 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
- PeterThoeny - 10 Nov 1998: The email notification and the Changes topic have now a topic date that is linked. Clicking on the link will show the difference between the two most recent topic revisions.
- PeterThoeny - 18 Nov 1998: Internal log of topic save actions to the file
data/logYYYYMM.txt
, where YYYYMM
the year and month in numeric format is. Intended for auditing only, not accessible from the web.
- PeterThoeny - 07 Dec 1998: Possible to add a category table to a TWiki topic. This permits storing and searching for more structured information. Editing a topic shows a HTML form with the usual text area and a table with selectors, checkboxes, radio buttons and text fields. TWikiDocumentation has more on setup. The TWiki.Know web uses this category table to set classification, platform and OS version.
- PeterThoeny - 08 Dec 1998: Signature is shown below the text area when editing a topic. Use this to easily copy & paste your signature into the text.
- PeterThoeny - 04 Jan 1999: Fixed bug when viewing differences between topic revisions that include HTML table tags like <table>, <tr>, <td>.
- PeterThoeny - 03 Feb 1999: Possible to view complete revision history of a topic on one page. Access at the linked date in the Changes page, or the
Diffs
link at the bottom of each topic, e.g.
Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit | Ref-By | Diffs | r1.3 | > | r1.2 | > | r1.1 }
Revision r1.3: 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
- PeterThoeny - 09 Feb 1999: No new topic revision is created if the same person saves a topic again within one hour.
- PeterThoeny - 09 Feb 1999: New text formatting rule for creating
fixed font text
. Words get showns in fixed font
by enclosing them in "=" equal signs. Example: Writing =fixed font= will show up as fixed font
.
- PeterThoeny - 26 Mar 1999: New variables
%PUBURL%
(Public directory URL) and %ATTACHURL%
(URL of topic file attachment).
- PeterThoeny - 26 Mar 1999: File attachments: Upload and download any file as a topic attachment by using the browser. FileAttachment has more.
- PeterThoeny - 15 Apr 1999: Topic locking: Warn user if a topic has been edited by an other person within one hour. This is to prevent contention, e.g. simultaneous topic updates.
- PeterThoeny - 20 May 1999: New variables
%WIKIHOMEURL%
(link when pressing the icon on the upper left corner) and %WIKITOOLNAME%
(the name of the wiki tool: TWiki
).
- PeterThoeny - 20 May 1999: Added meta tag so that robots index only /view/ of topics, not /edit/, /attach/ e.t.c. Tag: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
- DavidWarman - 21 May 1999: Externalize copyright text at the bottom of every page into a web-specific
webcopyright.inc
file. This is to easily customize the copyright text.
- PeterThoeny - 23 Jun 1999: Separate wiki.pm into configuration (wikicfg.pm) and TWiki core (wiki.pm) . This is to ease the upgrade of TWiki installations, it also allows customized extensions to TWiki without affecting the TWiki core.
- PeterThoeny - 23 Jun 1999: New TextFormattingRules to write bold italic text by enclosing words with double underline characters.
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