VaultWiki News

The new VaultWiki release, 3.0.0 Beta 5, is finally here. It's been long overdue, almost 3 weeks since the previous beta release, and with the availability of vBulletin 4.0.2, we thought we might have to rush out yet another beta.

However, the number of problems caused by vBulletin 4.0.2 forced us to keep it in QA for a while - and gave us the time we needed to roll out some much-anticipated changes.

Multi-Language Support

VaultWiki 3 Beta 5 is the first public build to support writing wiki pages in more than one language. Requested since very early in VaultWiki's development, Multi-Language support is something we have wanted to add for a long time but it required so many data management changes that it just seemed to get delayed further and further. ...

To finish the week off, we've released VaultWiki 3.0.0 Beta 4. While we did not have a beta scheduled for this week, the combination of recently sponsored features and some beta-quality bugs have necessitated it. To our surprise, quite a lot made it into this iteration.

Social Group Pages

If your community has active social groups, you can allow a social group to create group-centric wiki pages. Only the group's members can edit the pages, and if they choose, a page can be made completely private so that non-members can't even read it. ...

On our old site we had a pretty standard Donations system, where customers could show their gratitude and encourage further development by donating simply to "VaultWiki Development."

With the new site, we thought we'd add another level of dynamic to the Donations page - by launching a new program we call "Sponsor a Feature." As time progresses, we select several feature requests from the forums that we believe will result in significant improvements to the core product, but which will require significant changes and development time.

The selected requests are listed in the Donations page and "compete" with each other for the most donations. This helps us understand which features the community really, really wants and helps us prioritize their development.

Visit the donations page, by clicking the link under the Members tab. Check out what's in the works, and don’t hesitate to sponsor the feature that you most want to see implemented. ...

VaultWiki 3.0.0 Beta 3, released today, fixes many showstopper bugs in the previous betas and is the first release to point to the new web site for version-checking and copyright information. There are also some notable additions in this release which deserve some attention.

Improved Wiki Home

The wiki home page previously showed the wiki logo and a search box. In vBulletin 4, it was accessible by clicking the Wiki tab, but in vBulletin 3, it wasn't really accessible at all. vBulletin 3 now has a link in its drop-down menu to the wiki home page, and the page now lists the visible namespaces along with the total number of pages and comments in each one.

Easier .htaccess Setup

Because of the many possible .htaccess configurations possible using VaultWiki's settings, it has been almost impossible to write a definitive tutorial on what Mod-Rewrite rules to use for a wiki. One of the tools under "Initial Wiki Setup" section in the AdminCP is the Mod-Rewrite Generator, which parses your current wiki settings and outputs the rules you need to get it up and running.

For a complete list of changes in VaultWiki 3.0.0 Beta 3, see http://www.vaultwiki.org/support/lis...versionid=v126. ...

After 18 months of sharing a site with Cracked Egg Studios, we're happy to announce that the VaultWiki Team has been granted its own web site. VaultWiki.org is a site completely dedicated to licensing and support for our vBulletin product VaultWiki, and for our community of license holders to discuss and share their creations using the software.

Because the database was imported directly from our old location, everyone's posts, user names, passwords, should remain the same. While we officially launched yesterday, there are still a few content pages that need to be updated to better suit the focus of the site, and likely a few bugs that need to be worked out. We're very pleased with what we have so far, and we're sure you will be too. We have many exciting changes planned for the next few weeks that we can't wait to share with you.

Please note that the VaultWiki License Agreement has been updated to reflect this change and is effective for any downloads from now on. ...

With the release of vBulletin 4.0.1 earlier this week, we were forced to release Beta 2 before we completed all the items originally scheduled into the build. vBulletin 4.0.1 fixed some of its own style problems, creating conflicts with the way many mods, including VaultWiki, had designed their own CSS. Beta 2 was moved forward mainly to address this issue.

Custom Namespace URLs

That said, a few features did make it into Beta 2. It's now possible via the Namespace Manager to change the folder path of a namespace when your wiki uses Simple (aka friendly) URLs.

Let's say you have a namespace called "Product", where you have created your site's product pages. Previously, namespace URLs were generated in the format wiki/Product:Title. However, you can define the path "products" in the Namespace Manager, creating the URL products/Title.

Custom URLs will require mod_rewrite (.htaccess) changes. As this is a beta that was rushed out, there aren't any specific instructions for doing this yet. Therefore, we only recommend that users who are comfortable experimenting with their server configuration attempt to use this feature during the beta period.

More Auto-Link Control

Previously, there were only 3 settings for auto-links: disabled, enabled in wiki forums, enabled in all forums. In Beta 2, you can now enable or disable auto-links in each forum via your Forum Manager. In addition, the original settings have been expanded to include options for CMS articles, blogs, project tools, and other content types. ...