I have updated the topic RecentChanges at flexwiki.com [1] to incorporate a
WikiTalk based version of LastModified.aspx. It idoes not have the Author
Filter but all other functionality is included. It is considerably faster
and appears to put less load on the server, as indicated by AstralisLux
[1] http://www.flexwiki.com/default.aspx/FlexWiki/RecentChanges.html
John Davidson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Astralis Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thank you so much for working on these so quickly. I can understand you
> can't always do that. But your involvement has reinvigorated my interest in
> the wiki. Craig deserves a lot of credit for getting the engine together,
> but it's coders like you who realize that the wiki is all about users and
> designing code to make it work for them -- that will bring more people to
> FlexWiki.
>
> Once you get the template and forum hammered out, I envision putting
> together a new FlexWiki that demonstrates what it can do and give new people
> something tangible that they can see and work with immediately, so all these
> features that I'm mentioning are leading to that. I am basing the features
> on what I think are the most important Wikipedia features that haven't been
> implemented on FW yet.
>
> I've been thinking about the RecentChanges page and how it's reading
> everything and slowing the site. I think the only way to stop it from doing
> that is by targeting a date period. I don't know the architecture, but if
> you get many people clicking "recent changes", the site could potentially
> come to a stand still.
>
> I know Wikipedia allows the viewers to view a maximum of 500 recent
> changes within the past month and nothing more. And certainly the script
> doesn't search through every single topic each time the page is loaded.
> Would it even be okay to have a "poor man's cache" and write out a hard copy
> of the recent changes based on a date period whenever a page is created or
> edited? As long as it doesn't search through the entire wiki on every edit,
> that might be fine.
>
> Or maybe the following example is better...this WikiTalk is fast:
>
> :LatestTopics:{ topicCount |
> namespace.Topics.SortBy
> { each | DateTime.Now.SpanBetween(each.Created) }.Snip(topicCount).Collect
> { each | each }
> }
>
> @@LatestTopics(6).Collect{ each |[ " * ", Presentations.Link(
> federation.LinkMaker.LinkToTopic(each.Fullname), each.FormattedName,
> each.Name), Newline]}@@
>
> Maybe a recent changes based on this might be better?
>
>
> Regards,
> Clinton
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:51:46 -0500
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Posts are missing
>
> Hi Clinton
> When I use the Hidden Properties I don't need any if statements at all to
> create the output though I could if it is necessary to not display a heading
> when there is no entry. It becomes a matter of coercion whether or not to
> display empty headers.
>
> You are welcome to send more requests. I can't always guarantee to respond
> with a solutions as quickly as for the last few, but I will get to them.
>
> John Davidson
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Astralis Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> You got it! I see that you included them in your response on SourceForge.
>
> What you did is dead simple and perfect! That's exactly what I was looking
> for. I'm so impressed. I can probably figure out the conditional
> statements.
>
> With these type of features that have already been tried and tested on
> Wikipedia, FlexWiki doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. I can't wait to get
> a functioning version of FlexWiki with these types of features, the
> template, and the forum.
>
> I'm sure I have many more requests for these types of features if you
> don't mind me sending them. We need to demonstrate what FW can do!
>
>
> Regards,
> Clinton
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:49:52 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Posts are missing
>
>
> The last 2 posts that I have from you are about a link to a page with
> hidden properties for an InfoBox and another asking about WikiTalk With:
> property that I have just answered. Are there others that I should have?
> John Davidson
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Astralis Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Several of my posts about the wikipedia-like property table are missing.
> If you need the posts, I have them on file.
>
>
> Regards,
> Clinton
>
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