Wagn 0.5.0 was released into the world in mid-March, 2007. You can play with it right here, or see Wagn Installation to download it and try it out on your own server. We've already found a few Bugs, but you can help us out by reporting others; if your exploration sparks any Feature Requests we'd love to hear about those too.

New features since 0.4

Note: the documentation linked to here isn't all up to date yet - check back later, or better yet help out with it yourself!

Datatypes

Cards can have datatypes such as number, date, currency and much more (see below). This enables all kinds of number crunching and some other things now, and is a first step toward building calendars and more creative possibilities you/we dream up in the future. One way of using this is in combination with structure - for example you can set things up so a user creating a new meeting card is prompted to enter a date for the meeting.

Of note, two datatypes allow uploads - images, which can then be displayed, or any file at all, which can then be downloaded.

New look

We've revamped much of the interface, including a much clearer layout and a beautiful design that lays to rest the idea that wikis have to be ugly. Below each card there's a new row of tabs which show different lists of cards related to the card you're on. For example, the one with the left arrow shows backlinks - cards with one or more hyperlinks to the card you're on. Also, a table of contents is now automatically generated at the top of long cards with headers.

Administration & permissions

We've streamlined the process for inviting new users (their card is created as soon as you invite them, and there's no more activation link). The administration tools are greatly improved, and you can now make a cards viewable or editable only by yourself or a group. One side-benefit is you can put a private card in the sidebar and you're the only one who will see it there.

More more more

• auto save while you're editing cards
• nesting - put a card name inside squiggly brackets - - and it will appear there when you save (and you can edit the transcluded card just by double-clicking it).
• You can now page through long lists of search results (including Recent Changes)
• Edit conflict management
• Query cards let you choose a cardtype and a keyword and see a list of all the cards that match.
• Ruby cards can do *many* kinds of operations on cards in the wiki - especially with all the new datatypes.
• Server cards can show the result of a shell script!

Thanks to Meyer Memorial Trust for funding this work, and all of you for your support. Now get out there and play with it all, and contribute back your code and/or tell us how to make Wagn even better!