Zwiki is a powerful, easy-to-use GPL wiki engine for Zope. It works in both standard Zope and CMF/Plone. You can find out all about it at http://zwiki.org .

News

A productive month. Outside the product release notes, here's what I remember off the top of my head -

The zwiki.org discussion setup has been simplified; the mail lists have been retired, and the main discussion page is called GeneralDiscussion again. http://zwiki.org/AboutZwikiDiscussion explains all.

I'm offering free experimental zwiki hosting at http://zwiki.org/ZwikiFarm .

plone.zwiki.org has moved to http://plone.demo.zwiki.org . Old urls should still work.

http://notes.demo.zwiki.org demonstrates a zwiki configured as a personal notes wiki/outliner.

http://wikimatrix.joyful.com (and http://squeak.joyful.com/Packages) demonstrate a simple matrix/database app using structured wiki data.

http://zwiki.org/FrontPage has a new layout and demonstrates blog-style display of recent pages, inspired by Michael Haubenwallner and others.

http://joyful.com lists all wikis on this server.

I've been updating the blog at http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com .

We now have a wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwiki

A nicer darcs web interface has been installed, see zwiki-org -> darcs or http://joyful.com/darcs . There were 106 darcs commits this month, probably a new record.

Zwiki 0.46.0 2005/10/01

Summary

Per-user mailout policy, skins reorganization, plugin architecture enhancements, support for boring pages, wicked link syntax, favicons and separate create form, better logging, many code cleanups & bugfixes.

Upgrade notes

To make your rss feeds and zwiki.org-style blog listings less junky, do SomePage/setupCatalog to add the new isBoring index.

An mailout_policy folder property with value "edits" overrides the per-user policy (see below), but this may be dropped in a future release.

Changes

Installing

fix __implements__ attribute error when CMF is not installed (#1149, Warren)
make Zwiki startup more robust with strange locales/strange pythons (#1158)
make zmi add wiki form use a btreefolder
don't break when adding a wiki with id home (#591)
drop unnecessary loading plugins message at startup
don't log a warning at startup when the system locale is None
clarify missing PTS warning at startup
make fit import failure warning at startup less troubling
fix a case where a page upgrade wouldn't get logged
don't break when displaying a page whose page type has been uninstalled

Configuring

wiki subscriber mail-out, rss feeds and blog listings will ignore boring pages TestPage, SandBox and their offspring, by default. You can configure different pages in a boring_pages lines folder property, one per line. An isBoring index has been added to the standard catalog fields, run /setupCatalog to add it.
set a true use_double_parenthesis_links property to enable Wicked-style double parenthesis syntax for freeform wiki links. This is for world users who can't easily type [].
rename and delete no longer check for a username in addition to the permissions (though the skin may still hide them without a username.)

Browsing

the /changes_rss feed now shows the edit diff
misc_/* image paths are now relative to be more robust with vhosting (#689)

Editing

be sure to create our own recycle_bin even if the parent folder has one
purple numbers now disabled by default
allow create to be called directly by page management form

Mail

add "all edits" checkboxes to subscribeform. Zwiki can now send comments to some, edits to others.
reparent now also sends a mailout
remove (new), add (edit) in mailout subjects for clarity
just say "links updated" in rename mailout subject

Issue tracking

use more consistent (property change) in issue mailouts, and don't say it if no property changed
/issuebrowser was showing filter issues form

General - skins

big skins reorganization to reduce duplication
use a separate createform skin template for creating pages if present
hide most of the wiki action links by default in standard skin
tweak page management form layout in standard skin
drop unnecessary extra text from page management form in cmf/plone
remove old _ and = access keys from /showAccessKeys
register just the zwiki_standard skin with FilesystemSiteDirectory when installed
italicise log notes in recent changes
if a favicon object is present, set it as the page icon in the standard skin
don't let recentchanges break when a page type has been uninstalled
use the word "page" instead of "subtopic" in the page management form
don't let non-template objects with the same id hide our skin templates; improve bad template error
remove the h2 bottom border style
remove stray commas in page templates causing log warnings
drop uploaded and wikinav_portlet templates from plone skin

General

split content/ into wikis/ and scripts/
strip html tags in the page summary, and add renderedSummary which does formatting and linking
rename all pagetypes' renderXIn methods to format
plugins can now be packages or files
plugins can now override any method in the product core
add support for emacs-style "hooks" for customization by plugins

Best,
-Simon