Ideas from:
- keycontent.org & ricks99
- Mike Pilling
- Jason Diceman (coop tools /Web binder)
- Gary (Chibaguy) theme work
- support.mozilla.com team
- Marc Laporte
Problem:
- Editing a wiki page (and other edit zones in Tiki) is not as intuitive as it could be.
- Tiki is not as sexy as many other systems
- Most users are accustomed to WikiPedia UI & Syntax
Solution:
Check what everybody else is doing and enhance our own Tiki interface.
Please check out opensourcecms.com and report here on nice things you have seen.
Caveat:
Since this causes surprises/adjustments for end users, we should not do this often. All the changes below are somewhat inter-related so we should do it once, and well. And this should play nice with the WYSIWYG editor which was added to Tiki 2.0
I want to hear from end users, UI experts and people who do a lot of Tiki training (and see how new users use, and what they have trouble with, etc)
Work in progress: Tiki 3.0 edit wiki page example
Lost edit protection
moved to: Lost Edit Protection
Quicktags
Moved to Toolbar
Accents/special characters
Moved to: http://ui.tiki.org/Text+area+editing+helper#Accents_special_character
Wiki Help
- Direct link to plugins (why a second step?) idea from slj done in 3.0
- Add links to doc.tiki.org for all plugins done in 3.0
- Re-organize to have 5 tabs
- Quicktags explanation (visual)
- All wiki syntax for activated features
- All wiki syntax for de-activated features (we still want to see what we could turn on)
- All wiki plugins for activated features
- All wiki plugins for de-activated features (we still want to see what we could turn on)
Very nice: http://keycontent.org/tiki-editpage.php?page=Sample%20Collaboration (Very nice that it shows the relevant Quicktag)
Cooptools had some nice stuff as well
- Done in 1.10 (and backported to 1.9.8.x, too). Wiki help now shows:
- Quicktag
- Name
- Wiki syntax
Dynamic Help System
New users often suffer from "feature shock" when first using TikiWiki. There are so many features and things to click on that they often become overwhelmed and afraid to use any features (from fear of doing something wrong). It would be very helpful to new users to have some sort of a dynamic help system, whereby there is a prominent help button (like the "fullscreen" button, always visible) that the user can click, and then receive pop-up descriptions of various page objects as they "mouse-over" them. They would have to then click the help button again to escape the dynamic help mode and return to normal page functionality. This feature is similar to that found in some Windows applications where a user can click a question mark icon, which then changes the mouse cursor, and then click on various application objects to receive help on those objects. This is in essence a site feature in itself (may want to be turned off) and not trivial, but getting beginning users to get comfortable with using Tiki is not trivial either.
Section Edit
Like Wikipedia
Tiki 1.10 has editable sections when using the split plugin but it's not enough.
The work has started! Please test latest 1.10 from SVN.
phase 2: wish1800
Category picker
Easier category picker from cooptools.
Can be seen here too:
http://openpolitics.ca/tiki-editpage.php?page=test
Need fallback for non JS
If a category is picked, the checkbox "Categorize this object" should be done at the same time.
Spellchecker
moved to Spellcheck
Icons & layout
Gary has been using different layouts/icons
Should pick only 2-3 nice layouts to include with the base Tiki install. This is ongoing. See Gary
Preview & history
Wiki editing: Preview with diff, like Mediawiki
Page history could be better: See WikiPedia for ideas like a button to increment the diffed versions
Have a useful diff. MediaWiki is currently much better at understanding the changes than Tiki. It goes word by word, not letter by letter.
When viewing a diff, I should be able to see
preferred diff engine: admin setting, which could be optionnally overriden by user. If I override once, next time, it should use the same one (and not default always to html diff like in 2.0)
The diff procedure is not intuitive: when page is large, it's difficult to find action button
Html & javascript stripping (security) (maybe we'll look at this, maybe not)
- These security features cause support requests. Maybe we could enhance UI to facilitate use of dynamic content so users can add html
- Also related: Built it TPL editor removes Javascript from the Templates
Article templates
- Allow for a template for new articles (containing a TOC, sample syntax, or whatever the admin wants). This already exists content template
Misc
- Don't mess with the browser's default looks and behaviour for buttons and text fields. Users are used to how these things look and act by default.
- Capitalize button labels!
- better labels & system messages
Wishlist
Open
| Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (0) | multiple language support in quick edit plugin | jp_eagle | 7 | 10 easy | 70 |
| 2014-02-14 | 2014-02-14 | 0 | ||
| (1) | dev.t.o: Can't draw on screenshot - lost control over pop up window | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 8 | 64 |
| 2013-12-09 | 2013-12-09 | 0 | ||
| (0) | dev.t.o: plugin popup helper failed twice for pivottable | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 8 | 64 |
| 2020-03-07 | 2020-03-07 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Plugin Pivottable inserts wrong codes in params data, rows and cols through plugin helper ui | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| 2018-11-20 | 2019-01-19 | 0 | ||
| (3) | Browse Gallery option does not insert files or images syntax into wiki page | John Morris | 8 | 7 | 56 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2019-07-27 | 2020-06-10 | 5 jmorris-05 Jun 20 | |
| (0) | Edit-help modal displays behind edit-event modal in calendars | Gary Cunningham-Lee | 8 | 7 | 56 |
| 2021-06-18 | 2021-06-18 | 0 | ||
| (1) | forums editor not loaded in t.o mobile (13.x or next.t.o 14.x) | Xavier de Pedro | 9 | 6 | 54 |
| 2015-02-18 | 2015-03-16 | 8 WolfgangA-14 Mar 15 | ||
| (0) | Adding a character form the special characters palette deletes content after the new character | hhm | 10 high | 50 |
| 2017-04-25 | 2017-04-25 | 1 luci-25 Apr 17 | |||
| (0) | href from tags a, img... plugin ALINK do not work at all under 12.x LTS mobile mode (missing data-ajax='false') | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 7 | 49 |
| 2015-09-14 | 2015-09-14 | 0 | ||
| (0) | duplicating events in calendar is broken on 1.10svn right now (April 17th) | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 8 | 48 |
| 2008-04-17 | 2010-01-15 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Smarter detecting of domains and auto-links | Marc Laporte | 6 | 8 | 48 |
| 2008-11-03 | 2010-01-15 | 0 | ||
| (0) | 13.x dev.t.o bug tracker: missing category at submit time didn't take the user up to the source of the issue, and no message at the bottom | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 6 | 48 |
| 2014-10-09 | 2014-10-09 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Better table editor: Something like tracker inline edit but for wiki tables | Marc Laporte | 9 | 5 | 45 |
| 2008-11-02 | 2013-11-06 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Wiki page picker (WYSIWYCA) in edit mode, plugin help and anywhere relevant | 9 high | 45 |
| 2009-08-08 | 2009-08-08 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | notabs button not exposed in (12.x) mobile mode for Plugin Tabs | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 9 | 45 |
| 2015-07-24 | 2015-07-24 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Can't get login popup to *.t.o sites from android smartphone | Xavier de Pedro | 9 | 5 | 45 |
| 2015-09-09 | 2017-01-09 | 3 xavi-17 Sep 15 | ||
| (0) | insert tracker item with modal window fails due to form refresh when choosing page name from dropdown options | Xavier de Pedro | 9 | 5 | 45 |
| 2016-09-12 | 2016-09-12 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Plugin Convene should display table with options just after the user adds the first user an date | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 9 | 45 |
| 2016-12-09 | 2017-01-09 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Plugin Convene should suggest by default the username of the user viewing the page as the one to be added | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 9 | 45 |
| luciash d' being ? | 2016-12-09 | 2019-11-03 | 3 jonnybradley-18 Jun 22 | |
| (0) | Plugin Convene add name and choices at the same time with a clear "save" button (mimic Doodle ) | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 9 | 45 |
| 2016-12-09 | 2019-08-28 | 1 Jyhem-09 Dec 16 |
Pending
| Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (0) | Colorbox in mobile 12.x LTS doesn't show up properly (empty black screen) | Xavier de Pedro | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| manivannans | 2013-11-27 | 2014-01-10 | 0 | |
| (0) | Editor wysiwyg in wiki page doesn’t recognize images,to fix it I change manually {…} With <…> | azoret | 9 high | 8 | 72 |
| 2010-03-19 | 2011-10-08 | 1 arild-08 Oct 11 | ||
| (0) | Reduce occurrrence of lost edits | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 50 |
| Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties | 2007-07-11 | 2013-06-09 | 2 marclaporte-20 Jul 07 | ||
| (0) | It's too difficult to re-use image gallery and file gallery content in wiki pages, trackers, etc | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 50 |
| 2008-01-18 | 2013-06-09 | 8 SEWilco-12 Feb 09 | |||
| (0) | Wiki Table syntax: WYSIWCA for QuickTags | Marc Laporte | 1 low | 5 |
| 2007-04-12 | 2008-02-03 | 1 daniam-27 Nov 12 | |||
| (0) | Tracker plugin to get title and make link to tracker item | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-05-19 | 2009-05-02 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Support some of the MediaWiki syntax that doesn't conflict with TikiWiki syntax | Marc Laporte | 8 | 40 |
| 2008-10-27 | 2008-10-27 | 1 luci-16 Mar 09 | |||
| (0) | reduce losts on forums posts and trackers due to session expired (similar solution as in wiki?) | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 35 |
| 2008-01-19 | 2008-02-03 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Content templates should be part of quicktags | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2008-10-26 | 2008-10-26 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Category filtering fails in tracker | mrisch | 7 | 35 |
| 2009-10-31 | 2009-11-01 | 1 koth-02 Nov 09 | |||
| (0) | Plugin List GUI minor improvements | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 7 | 35 |
| 2017-07-10 | 2020-10-21 | 8 jonnybradley-21 Oct 20 | ||
| (0) | Ajax Error When Switching Between WYSIWYG and Syntax Editors | John Morris | 7 | 35 |
| 2017-07-12 | 2017-07-22 | 7 jmorris-27 Jul 17 | |||
| (0) | Large File Upload Problems in File Gallery | mrisch | 6 | 30 |
| s-p-s | 2007-12-25 | 2008-03-01 | 0 | ||
| (1) | doc.t.o 19.x: I can't upload images to wiki pages (CSRF) with elFinder | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| 2018-11-18 | 2019-01-21 | 6 lindon-17 Nov 19 | ||
| (0) | Anchor are lost after parsing | AMOKANDY | 5 | 25 |
| AMOKANDY | 2008-01-23 | 2008-01-31 | 5 tpinet-22 Jun 11 | ||
| (0) | Adding images to blog posts is no way as intuitive as it should be | Marc Laporte | 25 |
| 2008-01-27 | 2008-10-24 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | Admin user link from user registration validation page | mrisch | 25 |
| 2008-02-02 | 2008-02-02 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | Wiki markup for icons | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2008-02-03 | 2008-02-03 | 0 | |||
| (0) | wiki "edit by section" doesn't allow concurrent editions of different sections on the same page | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 25 |
| 2008-06-08 | 2008-06-08 | 2 xavi-11 Jun 08 | |||
| (0) | [mailto:text|text] doesn't have antispam protection | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2008-11-03 | 2008-11-03 | 0 |
Fixed
| Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (0) | Add preview button to tracker item submissions (useful for wiki syntax) | Xavi (as xavidp - admin) | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 2005-05-15 | 2021-09-23 | 1 Bsfez-23 Sep 21 | ||
| (1) | Minor bug report in 15beta | wewe | 1 low | 9 | 9 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2016-04-12 | 2016-04-14 | 2 Bsfez-14 Apr 16 | |
| (0) | can't upload an image to a file gallery in doc.t.o with elfinder (default UI) since 16.x | Xavier de Pedro | 9 | 9 | 81 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2016-11-18 | 2017-01-12 | 1 jonnybradley-12 Jan 17 | |
| (0) | Action buttons missing in 3 themes (Coalesce, Strasa, Ohia) when translating wiki pages | Olaf-Michael Stefanov | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2013-10-12 | 2013-11-21 | 1 jonnybradley-01 Nov 13 | |
| (0) | Fullscreen Edit : Wiki & Plugins Help are missing | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 8 | 72 |
| 2008-10-19 | 2010-01-18 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Freetags apostrophes are escaped | Jean-Marc Libs | 9 high | 8 | 72 | 2012-03-19 | 2012-05-02 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Allow for styling of the page name in a link to a non-existent page | DavidBright | 8 | 9 | 72 |
| 2013-04-13 | 2016-12-29 | 6 DavidBright-29 Dec 16 | ||
| (0) | 12.x: Countries list is not alphabetically sorted any more | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 9 | 63 |
| manivannans | 2013-11-20 | 2013-11-29 | 1 pascalstjean-23 Nov 13 | |
| (0) | 13.x: dev.t.o fivealive-lite.css: images can't be uploaded or selected throught the toolbar icon from tracker textarea | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 7 | 56 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2014-07-13 | 2015-11-14 | 0 | |
| (0) | 13.x: Default feature 'Contact us' (used in featured profiles) has broken display (too narrow fields and below right column) | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 7 | 56 |
| Gary Cunningham-Lee | 2014-07-26 | 2014-07-29 | 0 | |
| (0) | Modals in 20.x show tracker item edit fields narrower than in 18.x which were full width when tracker section format is set to tabs | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| 2019-07-09 | 2019-07-21 | 4 xavi-21 Jul 19 | ||
| (1) | PluginTogether should replace the url associated with the Edit page button so that co-editors are automagically offered to go to the session with collaborative edition instead of the warning of edition conflict | Xavier de Pedro | 9 | 6 | 54 |
| 2016-11-02 | 2020-09-28 | 9 jonnybradley-27 Jul 20 | ||
| (0) | Plugin dialog is hidden when full-screen is on | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 5 | 10 easy | 50 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2013-07-16 | 2013-08-15 | 1 pascalstjean-14 Aug 13 | |
| (0) | 11.x: issues with greenvalley theme style | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 10 easy | 50 |
| 2013-09-03 | 2013-09-06 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Can not edit Wiki Pages in Tiki 13.0 using Chrome or Netscape Browser. IE10 is working fine | frank-schulte | 10 high | 50 |
| 2014-09-28 | 2017-06-18 | 1 chibaguy-29 Sep 14 | |||
| (1) | Unable to insert a wiki plugin | luciash d' being ? | 10 high | 50 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2015-04-01 | 2015-04-02 | 1 luci-02 Apr 15 | ||
| (0) | dev.t.o: Some edits to tracker items are silently LOST! (feature_jquery_validation) | Xavier de Pedro | 10 high | 5 | 50 |
| Victor Emanouilov, Jonny Bradley | 2018-09-10 | 2018-11-20 | 12 Chealer9-20 Nov 18 | |
| (0) | The "Edit the included page" icon is still in the oldish png format instead of the FA icon | luciash d' being ? | 10 easy | 50 |
| Benoit Roy | 2018-11-12 | 2018-11-16 | 2 luci-16 Nov 18 | ||
| (0) | Syntax coloring in edit mode | edwinbennink | 1 low | 5 |
| 2012-05-09 | 2012-06-20 | 2 edwinbennink-11 May 12 | |||
| (1) | elFinder much worse at helping the user to insert the file just uploaded (compared to former interface) in real production sites such as doc.t.o | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 7 | 49 |
| 2015-01-26 | 2015-01-26 | 0 |
Resources
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