A lot of cool new stuff works in this version, but it is highly experimental, and we need lots of testing to make sure this is a robust, cross-platform, backwards-compatible release.

Here’s what’s new:

• Custom post types for 3.0
• Front-end editing
• A friendly, MediaWiki-like front-end interface
• Full Wiki syntax, including internal links
• Creating new wiki pages without a template tag for the 404 page

Here’s what’s still planned:

• An option for edits to go into a “pending” pool before approval
• A WYSIWYG editor that supports Wiki syntax
• Better permissions management
• The ability for users to include a note along with their edit
• Object-oriented design to allow for plugins

Here’s what’s still broken in the current version:

• Permissions for the “Wiki Editor” role are still not fully worked out. The code needs to be changed to only allow Wiki Editors to see and edit Wiki Pages
• “Red Links” lead to a page that will create a new Wiki page with the specified title, but you aren’t yet redirected to the new page.
• Graceful degradation- the front end editor depends on JavaScript to work.

Please download and test this version. It’s only been tested on OS X in Chrome and Firefox, using PHP 5 and MySQL 5. Report your findings in the comments.

More updates very very very soon!

To make this happen we’ve teamed up with Matthew Gerring, WordPress developer extraordinaire who has been working on the overhaul.

Stay tuned for Matthews update.

Also I would like to thank Toni Prug for helping integrate the TOC feature in 0.8 it was much appreciated and I’m sure it is appreciated by the community. Toni, apologies for not adding you as an SVN Committer but for some reason wordpress.org does not like your username
For everybody else though that wants to take a look at the last lot of changes. And who want to know where to look at the next lot of changes. Then this link is the one to keep in your bookmarks.

» WP Wiki Revision Log

1) the ability for edits to go into a pending pool (we can’t figure this out)
2) integrate inline editing with scribu’s inline edit plugin (this is hard too)
3) a few more widgets (can’t think right now)
4) admin Watchlist – the ability for different admins to watch different pages

We also need a better understanding of Wiki theory in general. I have no idea what makes a page incomplete etc – for example when you browse to a wikipedia page sometimes they have all sorts of messages in little boxes. i.e. this page is incomplete, this page needs peer reviewing, this page needs etc etc etc…

What would be cool would be a system whereby the admin person watching those pages could simply check a box that applies that box with the appropriate message at the top of the page. I’m guessing that is how media wiki does things.

Also one other thing I thought would be cool would be a rollover notes system that shows readers notes as to why somebody may have made a change. This would / could be an add on module – but what do you think?!?

Setting to show Table of Content on front page

If you display only the first part of your posts on the front page of your website then previously you would have ended up with a “TOC” within a single item/post, which is useless. Also you may not want to have a TOC on the front page posts in general, as you may find that it clutters your blog. People who do want it on the front page, can check the box that is now present under the Wiki Settings page.

Cron Facility

We have implemented the WP cron facility for sending batch email notifications to administrators when “Wiki Editors” make changes to your site.

The plan is to extend this functionality so that you can select how often you want receive these emails i.e. once per week vs once per day vs an email for every change.

1. Made some changes to ensure that the edit functionality only occurs for Wiki Editable pages and posts for users logged in as a Wiki Editor
2. Added the capability to add piped links to pages
3. Added a new Wiki Settings pages that allows you to customize the number of revisions shown in the front end. Also we added the ability to send emails to administrators whenever there are any wiki changes (somebody could test this for us)

- Download WP Wiki Plugin

When a new “Wiki Editor” signs up on your site they can only edit pages and posts that have been marked as Wiki Friendly. This is a great improvement and takes us one step closer to the being the best Wiki option in the world.

The next milestone will be AJAX page and post editing.

The new version comes with the following enhancements:

You will have the ability to turn the “Table of Contents” on and off on a page by page (or post by post) basis.

The WordPress Wiki Plugin now automaticly adds a new “Wiki Editor Role” to your WordPress settings page.

And finally a new Wiki updates RSS feed will help you keep up to date with changes on your site.

The url for your the wiki feed is:

http://domain.tld/?feed=wiki (if permalink is not enabled) and
http://domain.tld/feed/wiki (if permalink is enabled)

Stay tuned…