Suggestions Archive

My Contributions feature. MediaWiki (Wikipedia and others) has a feature where users can see all the edits of any user -- a snapshot of the user's contributions to the site. This can help build reputation, or help locate something a user is doing for which s/he needs help.

[Admin] DONE!

 request that the urls in notifications be hyperlinked - mine always were until recently ???

[Admin] DONE! 

 It would be nice if the list numbering was more like outline numbering. As in 1. ... a. ... i. ...

It would be nice to be able to link directly to a specific comment on a page. That would allow text on a page to refer to comments, comments to refer to each other and so on. It also almost wholly eliminates the need for a blog.

[Tracy] The answer (of course!) is to use anchors in the target comment, and a regular link from the source. Sorry, got temporarily blinded by blog-mania.  

We have teams from across the world maintaining our wiki and the problem we are having are the dates in the Comments.  The comments do not appear in sequential order of when they were created.  For example, a Pakistan entry in the morning appears before an east coast entry in the afternoon. Any cures? fixes?

[Admin] Glynn, this has been fixed. If you re-apply your site's "Skin", you'll see the fix. 

Redirects and other .htaccess goodness
Occasionally, I decide that I'd like to take a particular page down and replace it with some other distinct page.  Perhaps lindyhop to lindy-hop (better search engine visibility), and so on. On sites that I host on a 'regular' server, I simply add a RedirectPermanent statement in my .htaccess file and BOOM, visitors and search engines alike are appropriately redirected from the old to the new page.  Could you please add a similar function to EditMe?  In fact, though I suppose I'm being greedy now, I'd really like to have a real .htaccess file in my editme account that I could use to do lots of neat stuff (redirect mysite.com to www.mysite.com, etc.).

Ability to choose which files are shown in Index
I am creating a number of templates that are world-viewable... but I'm annoyed that they show up in the Index.  Seeing "AdWords block - Tall" in the Index just looks tacky :(.  Could you please let us easily hide any file from the publicly viewable Index of our sites?  Thanks!

[admin] Pages that don't have a Title set aren't shown in the index or search results.

[thatadamguy] Ah, I used the wrong term!  I meant to say that I was creating a number of pages to include in others; e.g., an AdWords block that can be included in other pages.  Since I have to title it to refer to it and include it in other pages, the page shows up in the index by default :|.

[admin] You don't have to have a title for a page to include it in other pages. You can edit your Google Ad Block page and erase the title - it will still be included in other pages but won't show up in the index. (For what it's worth, this is a temporary work-around - we do plan to add a feature to hide a page from the Index and search results.)

Anti-spam
Enable us to implement turing tests so we can have our sites fully public writeable yet not spam-infested.  For instance, on my site I'd want the following above the submit changes button:  "I'm Adam Lasnik.  Type my first name below so I know you're not a spambot."  or "What's the sum of two and two?" etc.  These should be sufficient to easily block spambots while not presenting a roadblock to some sight-impaired folks who can't read captchas.

Easier file management (or at least easier deleting!)
I was doing some major house cleaning on one of my editme wikis, and I was really bummed to have to spend a long time deleting pages.  The process is very unintuitive:   Find page, edit page, mark as deleted, save page, repeat for all pages, then go to admin interface and select every single item before hitting delete.  At the very least, please give us a "select all" button! :D

1) Spam Protection - It would be nice to have a way to undue all the edits by a particular user. Going to each vandalized page can be tedious.

2) Email Announcements - Also a way to email announcements to the registered users would be very nice. Right now I have no way to contact the “team” of people working on the site.

[Admin] DONE! 

3) New user Notification - Notification of when a new user signs up would be nice. Basically, I would like to have a more sophisticated user management system.

[Admin] DONE! 

4) Member Approval - I would like to see a way to “approve” member’s kind of how Yahoo groups does it. When someone registered they say why they want to join and then the admin gets an email saying this member would like to join for xyz reason. You could even set it up where they could do a limited amount of editing.

[Admin] Done! 

5) Print this page button- How hard would it be to add a "Print this page" button? The button would get rid of all the side bars and have just the content for printing. This would really help out for those wikis with long pages.

-- See Hide On Print for a workaround - David Allen

6) Preview Changes Button- nuff said

[Admin] There is a Preview button on the editor toolbar. 

Turn comments on or off for individual pages.

[Admin] DONE! 

The ability to email a comment to a page would be awesome.