About me

I'm a member of the TWiki CoreTeam, though I'm rather inactive on TWiki at present having changed job and moved house.

The to-do's here are just for my convenience, and rather old. Trivia fact: I was at university with JohnTalintyre (also on the CoreTeam) but discovered TWiki independently.

My home page is at http://donkin.org - this is a TWiki site that I use mainly for WebsitePublishing and most recently for testing InternationalisationEnhancements.

To do for DakarRelease

• Docs for RefreshEditPage

Wish list

• Improved searching, closer to Google in ease of use and relevance sorting - see UsingGoogleToSearchWikiLearn and the various searching topics on Codev
• Offline wiki syncing, including searching on the offline (laptop) TWiki pages.
• SettingCorrectTimeZone (maybe)

Investigation list

• PowerEditAddonDev and other Javascript/Java editing work
• TaintChecking
• Security of EmailThisPageLink
• ImproveTestenv

Bugs to fix

• Doc fix - MappingUsernames
• ViewAfterSaveLosesText
• ViewAfterSaveCachesOldPage
• And others at TWikiPatches and BugReports ...

In progress - code

In progress - docs and browser extensions

• WindowsInstallCookbook
• TWikiDebugging
• BrowserIssues
• BrowserExtensions:
  • Implemented MozillaSidebar
  • Implemented OperaSidebar
  • Helped with InternetExplorerSidebar
  • Implemented SherlockAndMozillaSearching (for MacOS and MozillaBrowser users)
• Docs and updates to JavascriptBasedEditor

Done - to be committed to CVS or TWiki beta site

Done - committed to CVS and/or TWiki beta site

• Put help text directly into Edit frame, like PhpWiki (with help from many others including PeterThoeny and ArthurClemens)
• Last bits of InternationalisationEnhancements
• More I18N:
  • OS/390 and EBCDIC support - RewritingUrlsWithEscapedCharsUnderOs390
  • InternationalisationUTF8 support for URLs - avoids browser setup
• testenv update to recommend best CGI.pm version
• Internationalisation stuff - lots of InternationalisationEnhancements done towards end 2002, including CyrillicSupport
• OmittingEmailInWebNotify, inc docs
• testenv update to check for GNU diff
• testenv update for SettingLibPath, ModPerl warnings and showing @INC - CookbookActivePerlTestenv
• SettingLibPath, inc docs
• MorePluginHooks - revised plugin API for HTTP headers
  • Fix for BackFromPreviewLosesText now works with writeHeaderHandler plugins such as SessionPlugin
• RefreshEditPage - covers all cases, makes OperaBrowser more usable for TWiki
• RenamedLinksGetBrokenInStatistics
• EmailThisPageLink, inc docs
• EasierExternalLinking
  • Docs for EasierExternalLinking
• Re-wrote statistics script - StatisticsUsingLessResources - File::Temp dependency now removed
• SignatureUsesWrongDate
• BackFromPreviewLosesText
  • Template fixes - remove bug references from edit.*
• CobaltRaqInstall
• Lots of testenv updates for ActivePerl, ModPerl and many Windows issues - CookbookActivePerlTestenv
• Fixed register - WindowsInstallCookbook step 5
• Fixed passwd and ChangePassword - ChangePasswordOnWin2K
• Fixed Net.pm - NetSmtpFailsToConnect
• testenv updates for improved module checking and OS detection - download from CVSget:bin/testenv
• And various other bugs, see BugResolved

TWiki topics

Topics I've been involved in recently - using a search until we get better ConversationTracking. This is sparked by (again) missing a response to a question I posted.

Codev

Support

Plugins

My Personal Preferences

• Show tool-tip topic info on mouse-over of WikiWord links, on or off:
  • Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = off

• Preference for the editor, default is the WYSIWYG editor. The options are raw, wysiwyg:
  • Set EDITMETHOD = wysiwyg

• Access control:
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = RichardDonkin

• More preferences TWiki has system wide preferences settings defined in TWikiPreferences. You can customize preferences settings to your needs: To overload a system setting, (1) do a "raw view" on TWikiPreferences, (2) copy a Set VARIABLE = value bullet, (3) do a "raw edit" of your user profile page, (4) add the bullet to the bullet list above, and (5) customize the value as needed. Make sure the settings render as real bullets (in "raw edit", a bullet requires 3 or 6 spaces before the asterisk).

Related Topics

• ChangePassword for changing your password
• ResetPassword for changing your password
• ChangeEmailAddress for changing your email address
• UserDocumentationCategory is a list of TWiki user documentation
• UserToolsCategory lists all TWiki user tools