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FeatureSummaries

Feature Summaries

This page collects summary descriptions of features.

Please read the Style Guidelines at the bottom of this page before editing this page.

However, you are invited to describe your feature idea on IdeasToPlace.

The List

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)
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 MeatBall, but not CommunityWiki. (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 [PlogDev]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)
RaisedRecentChange Manually add entries to RecentChanges (CategoryRecentChanges)
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.
UnifiedRecentChanges Collect RecentChanges from multiple wiki, and present them together. (CategoryRecentChanges)
UserBan Prevent certain users from editing pages
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)
[WWW]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)

Style Guidelines

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.

If the full wiki page isn't written yet, but there are useful notes in IdeasToPlace, give the IdeasToPlace number at the end of the summary, in parenthesis.