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Year of Graduation 2011
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Asher's diary of all technical (non-content) changes being made on WikiVet. Log of work on WikiVet carried out in 2010 here.



March

25/03/2010

Google Translate Extension

Now installed with Dutch, French, German & Spanish languages available.

FCKEditor

Disabled.

Medicore

Started investigation's to installing on server.

February

19/02/2010

TwitterFBLike

Started to look at another facebook extensions TwitterFBLike, here.

ConfirmAccount

Users can no longer use a single character for their name. If the character is trailed by a "." it will also be rejected.

16/02/2010

ConfirmAccount

Blocked users can now request account. Specifically implemented for the new IP access feature.

09/02/2011

IP address

Changed settings so User RVC cannot do anything apart for viewing pages.

ConfirmAccount

Due to problems with users having duplicate email address a fix has been implemented to stop users registering if their email address is already on the system.

05/02/2011

Poll Extensions

Biref look at a number of extension to try polling on the wiki. None particularly good on first analysis. Tired Poll2, Vote and SecurePoll.

  • Extension:CommunityVoice, Extension:Poll and Extension:QPoll were all of no use.

January

31/01/2011

NetworkAuth

Extension installed to allow institutional access via IP ranges. Now testing out for RVC IP addresses.

29/01/2011

FCKeditor Take II

This extension has now been installed again to give WikiVet a WYSIWYG editor. The flaw where it was removing captions to images has now been resolved (details here). This extension only works with wikitext. Pages that contain HTML will corrupt when this extension is used.

26/01/2011

Rich Text Editor

FCKeditor disabled as it has too many bugs. Several other editors looked into and tested but none provide the stability, compatibility or usability that we require. Further work needs to be done to find a good working alternative. This may require considerably more time...

23/01/2011

FCKeditor

This extension has now been installed to give WikiVet a WYSIWYG editor. It should hopefully reduce the learning curve required to edit the wiki.

12/01/2011

Copyright

Site content copyright details should now appear across the wiki pages. Changes made to enforce this are listed here.

12/01/2011

Collection Extension

Now installed and configured. User can now create PDF's and books by using the link in the sidebar under 'Print/Export'. Extension modified to alert users to unreliable nature of creating books (our server may not be quick enough?) as well as removing the option to buy the book (this may be re-instigated). Change in code documented here.

11/01/2011

ConfirmAccount Extension

Users are now added to the database for the mailer automatically. Extension no longer adds users to a category based on their year of graduation.

10/01/2011

Collection Extension

Now under investigation. Should deliver the ability to produce books and PDF's from the sites pages. Clearance and further testing required of this extension before it is made live.

Dada Mailer

Upgraded to the latest version 4.3.1 and have integrated the database directly into the wiki's database to enable better integration with existing extensions, namely confirm account, and to stream line the back end of WikiVet.

07/01/2011

ConfirmAccount

Preliminary work has been carried out in an attempt to automatically add new users to the newsletter mailing list. Re-organisation of the the database will be required.