It's not our problem that you have special feeling to one of the generic words. Also note, that there is good and bad Karma in religion.

And please have more distance. No one but you criticized the chosen word from its beginning on Wikidot. And it's been months!

Karma is a built-in function within the Wilders Security Forums that allows a person to award and be awarded points for good forum postings.

You can search on Google: "definition karma forum".

So while you are welcome to your definition of the word, we will happily stick with ours.

Thanks,
Wikidot

I have continued the open source fight on my own site: http://my-wd-local.wikidot.com/

My guides are pretty current, but I have not even tried to use the VMWare image since giving it a shot and failing back when it was first released. Since v2 has been on hold for so long, my only focus has been on using v1. I have had great success running v1 on stand-alone hardware and in VirtualBox VMs.

BTW, there is no need for running update-2008-08-19.php if you do fresh installs from the SVN repository.

-Ed

Anyway, I guess now I can try to modife the source then..

Anyways, a big second on the named content as it also removes the positional constraints on the page source.

Dave

E.g., http://paxrivertri.wikidot.com/smithfield-sprint

I'd like the "Series" field to be optional — some races don't have it. So I wish there was a way that the template could leave out "Series:" if the content placeholder for it is empty.

Also, and this is just an idea out of my head, so I don't know if it is worthwhile, but maybe it would be neat if content fields could be named, i.e,
==== Series ====
instead of just being numbered in order.

I have an existing site schoolsplay.wikidot.com, that I want to update.
In the train I have the most time, but no internet connection.
Can I 'export' my site to my harddisk and use it in the VMWare image on Windows XP?
And how would I do this?

I'm trying the backup route: manage site - backup and load that into the image.
But it says at the backup page: "The backup option at the moment has a few limitations: you can not restore from it automatically, it does not include all page revisions, only current (latest), it does not include forum discussion or page comments."
That's not a dealbreaker, but it would be nicest if everything is in it, and can be easily imported in the VMWare image.

Thanks,

Chris

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Wikidot_Exception_Php_Warning' with message 'pg_connect() [<a href='function.pg-connect'>function.pg-connect</a>]: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host &quot;192.168.17.129&quot; and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5433?' in /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/misc/setup.php:92 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: wikidot_error_handler(2, 'pg_connect() [<…', '/wikidot/www/wi…', 74, Array) #1 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db/Connection/Pg.php(74): pg_connect('host='192.168.1…') #2 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db.php(60): Wikidot_Db_Connection_Pg->__construct(Array) #3 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db.php(83): Wikidot_Db::factory('pg', Array) #4 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db.php(103): Wikidot_Db::init() #5 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot.php(140): Wikidot_Db::connection(NULL) #6 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Core/Api.php(139): Wikidot::database() # in /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/misc/setup.php on line 92

That was alright. It says PHP errors were fine. Then I continued to the next step of ant generate-site.

A load of errors came up.

Please help me!!

-tsangk

— hartnell

I ran my blog feed through the wc3 Feed Validation Service and came up with several errors.

See the Errors without having to copy/paste my feed.

I'm still a ways off from getting indexed anyway, but I thought I'd bring this up.

Also, Technorati likes to be pinged before it indexes. Some places are set up to auto-ping it. Details here. I don't know a lot about this, so I'm not really sure if that might be related to the pingback item on your checklist or not.

Thanks again for pursuing blogging.

Thanks for doing this, I love the idea of a wikidot blogging platform.

Michal, shouldn't %%summary%% behave roughly like [[module Pages … preview="true"]] does?

%%summary%% displays so much more (formatted) text that it's very difficult to see when the summary for one page ends, and the next page starts — for an example see http://sandbox.wikidot.com/listpages-summary

It uses the following code to display page summaries. If I'm correct, there's even a Listpages bug, as you can see that the first page listed there doesn't even have a %%linked_title%%.

 [[module ListPages]] %%linked_title%% %%summary%% [[/module]] 

There is a separate issue of not allowing people to see blog posts that have not yet been published.

1. It is hard to see the karma bars that are yellow and red. I'd suggest making them all green.
2. The black/grey strip is distracting and looks un-pretty. I'd suggest making the green bars darker, on a transparent background.
3. When you hover over the icon the large view does not say anything about the karma, it should.

Great stuff, it's going to be useful IMO especially when we can start to filter comments by karma.

• ListPages -> Select
• category, categories -> from
• tags -> where
• prependLine -> header
• appendLine -> footer

Giving something like this:

 [[module Select from="blog,news" where="public" header="||~ Page||~ Date||"]] || %%linked_title%% || %%date%% || [[/module]] 

The actual implementation seems to behave differently:

If you have 100 pages and use perPage="10" or "20" (and you don't set limit) you get 10 or 20 pages without pagination.

Only if you use perPage="10" and specify limit="100" you get 10 by 10 pages with pagination.

For an example see http://sandbox.wikidot.com/listpages-pagination

• postedit the publication date (hum, an event occured in the past but I forgot to announce it, but 3 days later I want it published on that date, not on the current editing date)
• prepare blog posts with a date in the future, i.e. when I'm going to go for holidays, I can prepare some posts that will be published in due time, while I am on the beach.

Indeed, I would like to be able to edit the date of regular forum posts of version 1.

It's not a link to a page, but plain text.

It took two include templates and six pages to implement this! A big advantage (and a feature that would help reduce the need for six pages down to one page) would be, if ListPages supported URL's such …wikidot.com/page-name/order/titleAsc (similar to what it supports for pagination) to overrule ListPages' sort order.

Support for …wikidot.com/page-name/category/category-name would be nice, too.

There seems to be a bug in the parser though, if you add style="…" attributes to the cell tag in prependLine — please see http://sandbox.wikidot.com/listpages

Thx

If the default for limit is “none”, then I would expect a default configuration to display all pages, but it actually just displays 20.

Is the documentation wrong? What does “none” mean? Zero? Unlimited?

 [[module ListPages prependLine="||~ Page||~ Date||"]] || %%linked_title%% || %%date%% || [[/module]] 

shows the following error(s):

An error occured when processing your request.
Warning: pg_query() [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "" in /var/www/www.wikidot.com/ozone/ozone/php/core/database/PgConnection.php on line 100

• rssEmbed (embeds link to a corresponding RSS feed in the HTML header so that browsers and other clients can discover it) and
• rssShow (shows an RSS icon below the generated list).

What do you thing would be the most commonly used settings for those two? Setting them manually to false too often could be annoying, but on the other hand it would be nice to promote the use of feeds.

RSS feeds exist independently of the module, the module just points to the proper URL that allows one to access the feed.

the reason the module "does not work recursively" is because it can enter an endless loop, exactly as in one of your early tests when displaying such a page brings "connection dropped" from the server. Thanks for finding this bug anyway! The quickest way to be 100% sure that no ListPages calls was to disable the nested ListPages.

Perhaps a better solution could be found. We were trying some other methods too but this one was the quickest to fix the problem. Any suggestions?

PerPage and limit work in the following way:

Suppose you have 100 pages in your category blog:. You want to show them all, but paginated, 10 per page. You use: perPage="10".
Now, to display just 10 pages, but nothing else, no pagination, you use: limit="10".
A combination of these: you want a visitor to browse only 50 first pages of 100, but still 10 per page: perPage="10", limit="50".

limit="n" limits the total number of results that fulfill the select conditions — if you have many pages, 10000, this can limit your set to e.g. 40. This limitation is applied first.
perPage="n" tells how to display the results — how many per one page. If you limit your result set from 10000 to 40, your can display them all at once (perPage="40") or e.g. by 10 (perPage="10") — it would create 4 pages of results with previous/next buttons.

I hope it helps!

Thanks for your comments!!!

m.

See http://sandbox.wikidot.com/listpages:recursive

 [[module ListPages category="listpages" rssEmbed="false" rssShow="false"]] %%linked_title%% ++++ Description %%description%% ++++ Content %%content%% ++++ Content{1} %%content{1}%% [[/module]] 

-Pieter

I'm not sure %%first_paragraph%% is a good name, it's kind of ugly. I'd prefer:

- %%content{n}%% to be explicit
- %%short%% to be the first paragraph (obviously, in the first section if any)
- %%description%% to be the same as short (and in fact, multiple names for the same thing is ugly too, and we should choose the nicest, shortest name, and deprecate the rest)

I can't see any case where the designer would want the current %%index%%/%%description%% behaviour… like I said, it's unstable because adding a second section makes it go bizarre. First you get the first paragraph, then suddenly you get the whole first section. Unstable is not good.

Lastly allowing both 'category' and 'categories' is another hack, and not the right solution. If you can't choose between two terms, they're both wrong. Try something different, like "from" (SQL semantics), and "where" for the tags property.

[[code]]
[[module ListPages from="blog,news,index" where="+public,-deleted"]]
etc.
[[/module]

I will try to answer most of them below here:

%%date%% issue

@Erich: thanks, dates are working fine now.

categories parameter and not recognized parameters.

OK, now categories is an alias to category. I think we can make warnings about wrong parameters later - the module took a bit more time than expected anyway. But certainly this is a good thing.

More on custom formatting

@Erich - unfortunately it is not possible to do custom formatting (i.e. table headers) the way you propose it because modules are processed at a different moment than the rest of the page. However I have a solution that does work: look at the prependLine and appendLine parameters. This works fine for me:

 [[module ListPages separate="false" rssShow="false" prependLine="||~ Page||~ Date||"]] || %%linked_title%% || %%date%% || [[/module]] 

@Pieter

1. Headers are now stripped from the summary and newlines are being removed.

2. There is now a %%first_paragraph%% that does what it says. %%content{1}%% will fetch the first section while the %%short%% and aliases will use either the first section (if exists) or would fall back to the first paragraph. I believe this brings some consistency.

3. Sure, one module to rule them all.

4. Yes, %%comments%% will be here, but first we would like to detach page comments from the forums structures and possibly make them a bit more blog-like.

5. Fixed. Just to be clear: this happened when you had %%content{n}%% in a ListModule inside a _template page.

Thanks for all the comments, I hope the module works much better now.

m.

A warning on unknown attributes would be generally useful. Also, later, help in the editor for entering module arguments.

%%content{1}%% (%%date|%O ago%%)

2. There is no way to ask for the first paragraph if one uses content separators. That is, adding a content separator anywhere into the page changes the behaviour of %%short%% and %%description%%, which is not good. I'd suggest that if people want to show the first content section they can use this explicitly:

%%content{1}%%

and if they use %%description%% or %%index%% then that should always take the first paragraph of text.

3. We eventually need selection on page rankings and parent page, so we can deprecate all these modules:

• ChildPages
• PagesByTag
• Backlinks
• RatedPages

4. We need the %%comments%% field in order to properly show blog entries and news stories.

5. When showing %%content{n}%% in a ListPages module on a page with content sections, it shows the data from the current page rather than the listed page. It should show the content section from the listed page.

Else you might consider to issue a warning if a non-existing attribute is specified. [[module ListPages categories="_default howto" ...]] works now, but doesn't list those two categories, but the current page's category.

See [http://community.wikidot.com/bugs:module-listpages].

Could you perhaps support ListPages configurations like the following? Thanks!

 [[table]] [[row]][[cell]]Page[[/cell]][[cell]]Date[[/cell]][[/row]] [[module ListPages separate="false" rssShow="false"]] [[row]][[cell]]%%linked_title%%[[/cell]][[cell]]%%date%%[[/cell]][[/row]] [[/module]] [[/table]] 

 ||~ Page||~ Date|| [[module ListPages separate="false" rssShow="false"]] || %%linked_title%% || %%date%% || [[/module]] 

for the empty folders.. i can confirm this problem, but nothing more :/
this should not happen in an ready image.. though for me it might is caused by virtualbox.. but then again.. he is using vmware and has the same problem

—Ano

though, accessing the / site gave me just

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu4 with Suhosin-Patch Server at localhost Port 8080

(port 8080 is forwarded to 80)

i thought this is a ready to run image? :/

after inspecting the logs it seems that it accesses the file /wikidot/www/wikidot1/web and that the file does not exist

oh and btw, why is there alsa installed?!
i could setup a virtual debian server for vbox with all configs done

edit: ok i should read more : 5. Before you launch it look at the settings and configure the Shared Folders — "wikidot1" or "wikidot2" must point to the locations where you have a working copy of Wikidot.

so nm that, going to try that now

—Ano

Please everyone test this module and comment on the functionality, either here or on our dev list.

m.

- by default, tags are OR
- use +tag to make a tag mandatory in the selection
- use -tag to make a mandatory negative selection

For category, the default should be the current category, so that if I use ListPages in the blog: category the default category is "blog:"

To select all categories I should be able to use "*".

For the Rss options, use consistent naming:

• rssTitle
• rssShow
• rssEmbed

Instead of 'separate' with default 'true', use 'breaks' with default 'false'. It's not nice to have defaults that are 'true', in general a default should be 'off' until requested to be 'on'.

 sudo su - 

Do you suppose this is what I need to use with the virtual machine? I would have tried it already but I'm trying to download the VM again (6th try!) hoping to get a clean copy.

See if that helps….

-gmhelper

P.S. I am also interested on how to work the Virtual Version coz I have installed it on my PC.

I downloaded the VM as required, and got what I think is a clean copy, tho it took several tries

• wikidot-dev2-vm-20080220.tar.gz (603,068 KB, or 617,540,980 bytes)

I tried using PowerArchiver and TUGZip, but neither was able to decompress everything for some reason. Neither generated errors, tho. By merging the two uncompressed versions, I was able to get a VM that booted up, but apache failed during startup, and the /wikidot/…/wikidot1 and wikidot2 directories were empty.

When I tried to shut down the VM, I kept getting an error: "Must be root", but I do not know what the root password is. It isn't "wdadmin", as it is for the wdadmin account. I had to force a "power-failure" shutdown in WMWare Player just to turn the VM off.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

Thanks,

David.