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This page collects summary descriptions of features.
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| AppendOnly | Makes pages almost read-only, in that text can further only be appended at the bottom or inserted. (CategoryEditing) | |
| AtomicCommits | Make changes to multiple pages in a bundle, rather than individually. That way, the collected changes can be seen as a whole, and reverted as a whole. (CategoryEditing) | |
| AutoLink | Automatically link whenever possible. (CategoryLinking) | |
| AutomaticTranslation | Use automatic translation to give some support to foreign readers and translators. (CategoryLanguage, CategoryEditing) | |
| AutomaticFeatureInstall | Automated process for loading features into a wiki. Community and/or administrator decides what is imported. (CategoryInterWiki) | |
| BuiltinCategories | Instead of using Category tags to tell what category a page belongs in, build knowledge of categories into the WikiEngine. | |
| BuiltinThreading | Instead of editing conversations like documents, build threaded conversation support into the WikiEngine. Comments are added with “reply to this” buttons, and appear in a hierarchy of comments. Like Slashdot, Kuro5hin. (CategoryEditing) | |
| DatabaseCapabilities | Make it easy to store data with forms. Make it easy to present data. And make it easy to extend the data structure. (CategoryObject) | |
| DelayedCommits | Wait a few hours before putting a change in front of casual visitors. Protects the wiki FrontPage from Slashdot trolls. (CategoryEditing) | |
| DocViewThreadViewSplit | Segregate the document view of a text from conversations about the text. (CategoryEditing) | |
| EmailAddressProtection | Automatic hiding of email addresses (behind forms or with simple but interoperable ‘encryption’ methods) to stop spambots and spiders from indexing them. (CategoryLinking) | |
| EventCasting | Cast events to an IntComm:EventServer whenever something interesting happens. (CategoryInterWiki) | |
| FacetedClassification | classify and organize wiki pages using facets, rather than ordinary hierarchy | |
| FadingLinks | Links that are not followed frequently gradually change to black. (CategoryLinking) | |
| FadingText | Text ages into a readable grey. Fresh text is black. (CategoryEditing) | |
| FailSafeWiki | A wiki where users don’t even notice when any one machine is unplugged. | |
| FineGrainedAddressing | Addressing content within a page. Sections, paragraphs, lines, pictures. (CategoryLinking) | |
| FoldingText | The idea that certain parts of a page (comments/discussion?) can be hidden from view, but viewable with a click to the + indicator. (CategoryEditing) | |
| HoneypotFrontPage | Automagical spambot detection and banning by intentionally leaving FronPage open for editing (CategoryEditing) | |
| InfiniteVersioning | store every old version of every page. | |
| InsertSubmission | Make it easy for people to contribute text (with a text-area form) in the middle of the page text. (CategoryEditing, CategoryObject) | |
| InterLink | Traditional InterWiki links. wiki:PageName (CategoryInterWiki, CategoryLinking) | |
| IntermapWalking | The ability to use other wiki’s InterMap for InterWiki links. For, example, you might write MeatBall:CommunityWiki:CliquesAndCommunity, if the immediate wiki knew Meat``Ball, but not Community``Wiki. (CategoryInterWiki, CategoryLinking) | |
| IrcInclusion | Features to support the easy inclusion of IRC transcripts. (CategoryObject) | |
| LinkBan | Banning edits that include links to spam sites. (CategoryEditing) | |
| MachineReadablePages | Pages that are easily read by other wiki and programs. (CategoryInterWiki) | |
| MachineServices | Wiki that are able to communicate with other wiki and programs. (CategoryInterWiki) | |
| MailedUpdates | Updates on wiki activity by E-Mail. | |
| MobileContent | Content that is easily transported from wiki to wiki. (CategoryInterWiki) | |
| NearLink | A WikiName that is defined on a “near” wiki, but not the immediate wiki, links to the “near” wiki’s page. (CategoryInterWiki, CategoryLinking) | |
| NearRecentChanges | RecentChanges collates the immediate wiki’s pages RecentChanges with the RecentChanges of “near” wiki. (CategoryInterWiki, CategoryRecentChanges) | |
| PageMetaData | Provide a way to specify miscellaneous page classification informations, visible only when editing, used for page grouping and as search enhancement. (category missing) | |
| PartialPageEditing | Edit part of a page, only. (CategoryEditing) | |
| PageRenaming | Rename pages easily. (CategoryLinking, CategoryEditing) | |
| PerPageRss | An RSS feed for each web page. That way, a person with a ChangeAggregator can easily track a single page. | |
| PersonalPing | Wiki reports your activities to your [wiki:PlogDev/PersonalLogServer plog.] (CategoryInterWiki) | |
| PublicallyEditableIntermap | Everyone can edit the InterMap. That way, people can InterLink with ease. (CategoryInterWiki, CategoryLinking) | |
| PurpleNumbers | Unique automatically assigned identifiers for each paragraph of a page. (CategoryLinking) | |
| QualityIndicator | We want high-quality wiki pages, right ? How do we measure “quality” ? | |
| RaisedRecentChange | Manually add entries to RecentChanges (CategoryRecentChanges) | |
| RatedMembers | Members acquire ratings from other members. | |
| RatedPages | Each page is assigned a rating by users. | |
| RdfForWiki | Putting machine-intelligble assertions into wiki pages. (CategoryObject) | |
| RealTimeEdit | 2 (or more) people can simultaneously edit the same wiki page. They see each others edits (and their own edits, of course) in real time. | |
| RejectDuplicate | Reject all edits that add a URI that already exists on some other page of the wiki. | |
| RevisionMarking | Include diffs in normal page output, and use JavaScript to show or hide. | |
| SimpleUiForVisitors | Visitors to the wiki have a simplified user interface. | |
| SpontaneousThreadedDiscussion | A feature that makes it easy to construct threaded conversations that can be addressed from multiple pages. | |
| StagedCommits | Changes to pages do not apply immediately. Rather, they are “staged” until the community or moderators approve of the change. (CategoryEditing) | |
| TextWarehousing | Otherwise unlabeled lockers for miscellaneous text. | |
| TrackBack | Support blog-style backlinks through trackback protocol. | |
| UnifiedRecentChanges | Collect RecentChanges from multiple wiki, and present them together. (CategoryRecentChanges) | |
| UserBan | Prevent certain users from editing pages | |
| WikiMath | calculations in wiki – from simple column sums, to full spreadsheet capabilities. (IdeasToPlace # 209). | |
| WikiVariables | Store (generally small) pieces of easily machine readable data on a wiki. (CategoryObject) | |
| WikiWhiteboard | In-browser editing of images (especially SVG). (CategoryObject) | |
| WysiwygEditor | What you see is what you get. Edit wiki without a special input form; Have a graphical user interface to editing the text. (CategoryEditing) | |
| PersonalWiki | Wiki that any user can install and configure with few clicks, like simple desktop application and handle personal stuff or share data with family and friends. (page from MoinMoin wiki) | |
Follow the pattern.
Summaries should be:
Name the feature’s dedicated wiki page at the beginning of the summary, even if it isn’t written yet.
Categorize features with keywords at the end of the feature description. That way, people can quickly search the text for features in a particular category. Read the category page for a better understanding.
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