DSpace Users & Developers, We wanted to inform you that we will be performing an upgrade of our DuraSpace Wiki (http://wiki.duraspace.org) on:
Friday, September 28 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT (18:00 - 19:00 UTC) During this period, all areas of the Wiki will be UNAVAILABLE for reading or editing. The purpose of this upgrade is to update us to the latest and greatest version of Atlassian Confluence (version 4.3.1). This upgrade will bring with it one significant change and also add many new features to our DuraSpace Wiki. See below for more details. == Significant Change: No More "Wiki Markup" Editor == With Confluence 4.x, Atlassian decided to move all editing over to their brand new (and vastly improved) "Rich Text Editor". You are still able to type Wiki Markup into the Rich Text editor. But, editing an existing page via the Wiki Markup Editor is no longer possible. More info for the Techies: The underlying format which Confluence uses to store its pages has changed to XHTML from Wiki Markup. You will still have the ability to directly edit a page's XHTML if you desire, but the old Wiki Markup editor no longer exists. == Many New Confluence Features Available == With this upgrade, we will now have the latest Confluence (4.3) features available in our DuraSpace Wiki (wiki.duraspace.org). The new features you may notice include: * Brand New / Enhanced "Rich Text" Editor. This editor is now much easier to use and includes enhanced table editing, easy page layouts, "Find & Replace" functionality, and auto-embedding media via a pasted in URL. (Added in Confluence 4.0 and enhanced in 4.1 & 4.2) * "Like" button & Quick Commenting. Each page & comments now have a "Like" button (similar to Facebook) which lets you add quick approval/thumbs up. There is now a quick comment box at the bottom of each page. (Added in Confluence 4.2) * Social @mentions. Similar to Twitter or Facebook, if you type "@" into a page/comment you can specifically mention another user to draw their attention to a particular page or comment. (Added in Confluence 4.0) * Tasks & Notifications. You can create public or personal task lists and assign tasks to yourself or others. In addition, there's a new Wiki notification "inbox" which holds all your recent notifications or mentions. These notifications can also still be sent via email. (Added in Confluence 4.3) * Mobile Interface. If you cannot get enough of the Wiki, there's now a mobile-friendly interface for making changes on the go. (Added in Confluence 4.3) If you want further information about any of these features, please see the Confluence Release Notes: * What's new in Confluence 4.0: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new/confluence-40 * What's new in Confluence 4.1: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new/confluence-41 * What's new in Confluence 4.2: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new/confluence-42 * What's new in Confluence 4.3: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new/confluence-43 --- We hope that you find these new Wiki features & changes to be worthwhile. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email sysad...@duraspace.org and we'll do our best to address them. Sincerely, Your friendly DuraSpace SysAdmins sysad...@duraspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
