Social Sharing
VaultWiki 4 RC 2 comes with a new "Share This Page" sidebar block, which should be enabled by default. On forums that already allow other forum pages to be shared on social media sites, this adds those same sharing links so that users can now promote your wiki pages to friends around the globe.For vBulletin users, this means Facebook Like or Recommend functionality is now available. Social bookmarks like Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, or whatever you have setup in vBulletin's Social Bookmarking Manager are there, too.
For XenForo users, this means Facebook Like, Twitter, and Google Plus buttons are available, as well as integration with the AddThis service.
VaultWiki provides the option to hide your visitors' browsing data from these third-parties until each user is actually ready to use the service. Keep in mind, however, that this proxies requests to third-party sites through your own web server, and therefore has a slight impact on server performance.
How to Link
In the same Sharing box, VaultWiki also shows how to link to the current page from other posts in the same web site, via BB-Code, and other sites around the web. If the current page represents a special resource, like an image or a template, the box will also show how to make use of that resource.New Comment Features: Reputation for vB, Selective Quote for XF
The headline says it all. VaultWiki now allows vBulletin users to give each other reputation points for wiki comments that they've posted, just as they can with other vBulletin forum posts.For XenForo users, we've added support for the new Selective Quote feature, which streamlines the process of quoting comments made by other users.
Printable Wiki Pages
If you've ever had a particularly informative wiki page that you or your users wished they could store on hard-copy to read or reference later, to show someone else, or just to file away, then you've been aware that VaultWiki's wiki pages have never been particularly printer-friendly.That has changed in RC 2. Each wiki page now includes a printer-friendly version that can be accessed by clicking the printer icon next to the page's title.
The printer-friendly version of every wiki page is a simple document, focusing almost entirely on the page content, with default styles that should make it easier to read on paper. The top of the document also includes the site logo, site name, as well as the wiki page title, some of the page's contributors, and the original page URL.
Changes to Sidebar Blocks
Previously it was only possible to have one copy of each Sidebar Block on a wiki page. While this was okay for the blocks that were available already, RC 2 now includes the ability to make your own Sidebar Blocks based on Custom HTML.For this reason, and to support more use cases moving forward, we've changed all the existing blocks into primitive Block Types. Now admins can create multiple copies of sidebar blocks based on any of these types.
In theory, this means you can have 3 search boxes on one page, but we expect it to be used more often for 3 different Custom HTML blocks.
Release Notes
VaultWiki 4 RC 2 should be usable on vBulletin-based and XenForo-based production sites.VaultWiki 4 RC 2 is proposed as stable for community evaluation. Further significant bugs will delay a 4.0.0 release and result in further release candidates.