TCGTopicsUpdateWikiVersion < IVOA

<h3>Updated Wiki system</h3>

Text to go in the 2008 Assessment and Roadmap document

The current IVOA wiki is running quite an old version: 
"This site is running TWiki version 04 Sep 2004 $Rev: 1742 $, Plugin API version 1.025".

It would be useful to upgrade the wiki version to some newer version which also offer more user-friendly editing facilities such as WYSIWYG and other more elaborated text formatting options.

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   -- HerveWozniak

The 'search' mode has been significantly improved in the last versions (in particular the 4.2 that accepts SQL-like requests). I'm thus in favour of an update.

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If there are changes being made here, would it be possible to do some URL-rewriting in the server configuration, and lose the =cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view= stuff in the URLs?  This looks unprofessional, makes the URIs longer than they need to be, and would make it hard to migrate the wiki software to a different engine should that ever be necessary or desirable.  Having a server config which remapped, for example =/wiki/*= to =/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/*= would do it, or using a virtual server and using the domain =wiki.ivoa.net= -- thus =http://wiki.ivoa.net/IVOA/IvoaTCG= (I emphasise that this could be done entirely in the Apache configration, and wouldn't need changes to the wiki software installation). -- NormanGray








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