OpenWetWare:Software/Milestones/February 2008

Lab Notebook

1. Recruit 3 trial users of the Lab Notebook
   • Hold a demo meeting to demonstrate how to use.
   • Give demo to Lorrie so she can work on the help documentation.
   • Debug lab notebook stuff as it comes up with the new users.
2. Add "search your lab notebook" feature
   • Use Austin's suggestion
3. Support for Group Lab Notebooks (late suggestion, view this as research item)

System Administration

1. Move OWW server to new hardware supporting Red Hat Enterprise Server 5
   • Currently running Red Hat Enterprise Server 4
2. Complete migration to MediaWiki 1.11 (MW1.11)
3. Install Semantic MW on OpenWetWare.org
   • Concerns over Semantic MW 1.9 version (smoother on MW1.11)
   • Verify that incompatibility before FCKEditor extension and Semantic MW has been fixed.

User Interface

1. Install the FCKEditor
   • Requires MW1.11
   • Notify Steering Committee
   • Solicit input.
2. Add "search from here" feature

Community Features

1. Add configurable header text to the Feedback tag.
   • The text will appear in the MediaWiki: namespace
2. Per SC meeting, evaluate a "who's online" display
   • Basing work on an existing extension.

Research items

• Streamlined image upload
  • Evaluate new MW1.11 Image support.
    • May differ in implementation than MW1.9

• Filename conflict resolution
  • Investigate providing a way for users to see filenames minus any disambiguation tagging.
  • Other users will see the full name.
  • Evaluate in light of the MW1.11 Image programming model change.

• Look into the Site Notice extension once more.
  • Did not work for redirect pages.
  • Investigate removing specific pages including redirects before adding the header.

• Filter spam associated with the Feedback extension.
  • Follow Austin's suggestions re: screening all addresses.

Notes

• wjf 02:39, 17 February 2008 (CST):PageNotice Extension now should correctly work with all dewikified exports of pages for labs, etc.
  • The extension now produces all headers and footers bracketed with tags that will suppress the contents of the tags from showing up inside of dewikified pages.
  • The changes have been applied and now await testing.
• wjf 13:13, 19 February 2008 (EST):The PageNotice.php extenson now checks for redirect pages. The software now returns if the current page is a redirect page. In the past, the extension would write into the page if a header or footer was present, thus breaking redirects.

• wjf 02:39, 17 February 2008 (CST):Feedback Page title and banners can be modified via the standard editor user interface.

• • wjf 02:39, 17 February 2008 (CST):The existing Google search interface needs to be folded back into the SpecialSearch page.