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Government gave buildings

nick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:56:55 GMT

In 1996 the Bavarian Government gave buildings at the historic Theresienh�he site in Munich to the Deutsches Museum resulting in the creation of the new transportation museum, the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum, which opened in 2003 and now houses the automobile and train exhibits which were removed from the original Deutsches Museum site. The Theresienh�he quarter is a new area on the edge of the inner city of Munich, and the Museum of Transport is a part of the quarter's design of mixed use.

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A few months prior to the summer

nick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:56:10 GMT

A few months prior to the summer 1903 meeting of the Society of German Engineers Oskar von Miller gathered a small group who supported his desire to found a science and technology museum. In a showing of support this group spontaneously donated 260,000 marks to the cause and elected a "Provisional Committee" to get the ball rolling.

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The ''Flugwerft Schlei�heim''

nick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:55:16 GMT

The ''Flugwerft Schlei�heim'' branch is located some 18 kilometers north of Munich's city center close to Schlei�heim Palace. It is based on the premises of one of the first military airbases in Germany founded just before World War I. It comprises the old air control and command center building as well as modern buildings added in the late 2000s after strong endorsement from.

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An open letter to the (WYSIWYG) editor

neilw — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:30:38 GMT

[note: after taking several deep breaths and counting to 10, I decided that this would be more constructive than an expletive-laden rant. Take it for what you will.]

To the editor:

Before I raise some concerns with your recent behavior, I would like to assure you that, really, I'm on your side. It was your delightful WYSIWYG-iness that helped draw me to DekiWiki way back when it was actually called that, and you have helped make our wiki to be successful due to your ease of use. I also appreciate the fact that by removing the leading "F" from your name, you are now less likely be mistaken for a NSFW phrase. Finally, I understand the difficult enviornment in which you work, dealing with cranky browsers, cranky users, and the limitations of being implemented in JavaScript in the first place.

However, my sympathy for your challenges ends where my misery begins.

First, let us talk about copy and paste. This sure is a useful feature on computers, and has been for longer than many of your users have been alive. Why then, do you seem to have so much trouble with it? (I won't even get into the paste-from-MSOffice issues, because in that area I indeed can only sympathize.)

To wit: today on the dev wiki I noticed that you have completely forgotten how copy and paste is supposed to work. For the record: when I position the cursor and hit "paste", I want the clipboard contents to be pasted at the cursor location. I do not wish to have a bookmark placed at the cursor, and the pasted text put at the top of the page. Oh, perhaps I should mention that this particular derangement seems to affect you only in Safari on the Mac, but it has completely eliminated my ability to do anything useful on the dev wiki from my Mac.

Here's another that is so annoying it makes me want to chew my own hands off. Whenever I copy something from a wiki page (inside the editor, of course) and then paste it somewhere else, you seem to feel the need to attach explicit styles to darn near every element. Perhaps you have forgotten that your own stylesheets eliminate the need to attach a massive style attribute to every

, , , and  element, just to name a few.  For instance, if I copy this:


	Code:
	


// This is a test
 then when I paste it, I do not want this:


	Code:
	


// This is a test
In addition to needlessly multiplying the size of the source, it makes it awfully frustrating for me when I need to go into the source to fix up some other problems you cause, and I can't discern any of my content among the superfluous styles.



While we're talking about , here's one that affects not only me but about half the Mindtouch users of the world when trying to install templates from the App Catalog.  While I appreciate HTML elements' ability to nest almost arbitrarily, it does not mean that I find it useful to have a  element inside a  element.  In fact, when pasting into a  element, we want plain text to go in, almost 100% of the time.  After pasting, we do not wish to need to go into the source editor to remove the superfluous HTML that you have inserted.



There are others I could mention, like the way you sometimes leave out the last line of text copied from a  area, or sometimes insert superfluous breaks in  blocks when pasting, but we need to move on to other areas.  Like, for instance, the fact that you no longer understand that I need to be able to insert tabs into  blocks.  I do not wish the entire block to be indented to the right when I hit "tab" inside the block.  That's what the "increase indent" button is for.



Are you aware that your table editor doesn't work so well in Webkit-based browsers?  For instance, you cannot drag-select mutliple cells.  To be fair this seems to be improved in your 3.0 guise: it looks like you can actually do "cell properties" on multiple selected cells, but the selected cells are annoyingly not highlighted the same way as other browsers.  And sadly, you can no longer use the paint bucket toolbar button to change the background color of cells, as that capability has now been exclusively sequestered many mouse clicks away in the "advanced" tab of the "cell properties" dialog (this is a major usability downgrade).



Sometimes you seem to be just messing with my head.  Like earlier today, when in "source" mode you couldn't decide whether or not to show a scrollbar, so you alternated showing and hiding the scrollbar about once a second, causing a reflow of text each time and making editing a very "interesting" experience.



Before I sign off, I should mention that while your new 3.0 facelift looks good, like any plastic surgery it has left a few scars.  Your "insert link" and "edit link" button icons seem to have been badly mutilated beyond recognition.  The new "templates" button is awfully generic, and likely to be overlooked entirely by all but the most careful new users.  I also cannot claim to be fond of the new "insert image" icon, which looks like a pastel-shaded smudge.  I feel shallow criticizing your appearance, but after all I do have to stare at you for a good bit of the day so it does matter to me.



You may wonder why I've chosen to write you this letter, rather than simply file bugs.  Some I have already filed (7124, 7029), but alas they have languished in "new" status for months, leaving me unsure if you've even looked at them.  Others I will get to as time permits, but lately I feel overwhelmed by them, so for the moment I can only hope I have conveyed the frustration you are causing me.



Sincerely,

NeilW



P.S.  Yes I feel better now




Disable comments for all pages?
misterneutral — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:19:11 GMT
Is there a universal (easy) way to disable comments for all pages and not even have the comments field show up?




User can change language of the site?
chrlang — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:55:48 GMT
Hi,



Is it possible for the user to change language of the site for only his account? Or even better, the language of the site changes by browser language if the visitor is a guest (ie not logged in)?



I tried to google and this forum but did not find any information regarding this.



Thank You in advance!



BR,

Chris




Improvements on tags?
carles.coll — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:31:14 GMT
Hey I've been experiencing some inconvenients with tags:



 - When you go to http://wiki/Special:Tags?tag="tag name" doesn't apear the define:"tag name" page, or better it can go to the define:"tag name" page if there's only one.



 - When you write a new tag on the autocomplete list apears define:"tag name" if it match with your input, I think this is not the correct way to do it, I think the define:"tag name" doesn't need

to apear on autocomplete list, It's allways anoying to have to select the second option, what you think about this? Well, better if it apears without the prefix "define:".



Carles.




Error Creating Subpages
rwolter — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:16:27 GMT
One of the code examples from the api documentation generates an error and I can't seem to figure out why.



The code attempts to create a new subpage and is based on the POST:pages/{pageid}/contents example.



Without a subpage it works fine. The following example passed.


	Code:
	
Plug p = Plug.New("http://localhost/api/deki");

p.At("users", "authenticate").WithCredentials("admin", "******").Get();

DreamMessage msg = DreamMessage.Ok(MimeType.TEXT, "Section 1
...");

DreamMessage resp = p.At("pages", "=Page_Title", "contents")

                                    .With("abort", "never")

                                    .With("edittime", DateTime.Now)

                                    .Post(msg);



Assert.IsNotNull(resp);

Assert.AreEqual(DreamStatus.Ok, resp.Status);
The next example is allmost the same exept the for the page title. This example fails with a DreamResponseException with code 400.




	Code:
	
...

DreamMessage resp = p.At("pages", "=Page_Title%252fSubpage_1", "contents")

                                    .With("abort", "never")

                                    ...

...
The code is actually identical to the example except for the abort and edittime parameters. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?




New way to do structured data in MindTouch: tables! (and manipulate the data)
jonverve — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:13:47 GMT
So I know there were discussions on here previously about the difficulty of putting structured data within the actual wiki pages.  For instance, if you use  
  with an 'id=' attribute, if the casual user goes to add something, its easy for the user to screw up the tags.  BUUUUTTT...if you use the 'id=' attribute with a table cell (td) that fixes the problem!  Notice the XPath parameter: //td[@id='time'] (and date and creator)



So here is my code example:



So the first part creates the table which displays all the pages and extracts the data parameters from each page.




	Code:
	
{{ wiki.create("Create new topic", page.path, "Blank topic") }}




This list of ideas is automatically generated.  Please use the button above to add an idea to this list.


Do not edit the table below - it contains code that automatically creates a list of spacecraft by pages that exist in the wiki.


{{ tstable(); }}

Topic name	Description	Topic creator	Creation time and date
{{ web.link(p.uri, p.title) }}	{{ xml.text(p.xml, "//p[@id='desc']") }}	{{ xml.text(p.xml, "//td[@id='creator']") }}	{{ xml.text(p.xml, "//td[@id='time']") }} {{ xml.text(p.xml, "//td[@id='date']") }}

On the pages themselves, this is how the data is stored:

Code:

Topic creator Philippe Starck Topic creation date 01/23/2010 Associate branch head 03:23 PM Individuals interested Add your name below if you are interested in this idea Add names here

For me, it was a huge development, so hopefully it will be useful to others.

- Jon

Hopefully only one last upgrade problem

davidoelfke — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:07:39 GMT

I finally got the upgrade to go through but it was missing the new stored procedures so I had to run all the sprocs. Now the pages do not parse the content... I will show you what I mean:

how to create filter on an html table without using JS

lordrt — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:06:08 GMT

Hello
I have created a table on a wiki page, and i wanted to add some sort of filtering to the table columns, but without using javascript external files to do so, only by using code added to the source of the page, is this possible?

Suddenly I get strange chars as Apache Response

carles.coll — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:45:46 GMT

Hey, I need help I don't know where to start, it's for two years I've been using Deki Wiki on our company. Configuration:
Windows 2003 Server R2
Apache
MySQL
Mindtouch Core 9.08

And suddenly today I don't get the normal pages as a response, I get something like this:

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"infinite"

Someone has had this problem before?

Thanks in advance.

Cannot use a variable with SAVE:web.html

rickyhow — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:42:08 GMT

Background
I am trying to import web pages using SAVE:web.html(). We are using MindTouch Enterprise 2009 (9.08.3).

Problem
When I specify the source URI using a variable, it ignores it and doesn't save. When I hard code the URI it does save.

Example
This ignores the save prefix.

Code:

var sourceuri = "http://demo.com"; SAVE:web.html(sourceuri, "//_:body")

This works.

Code:

SAVE:web.html("http://demo.com/", "//_:body")

GET:users/authenticate

rickmeyer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:04:39 GMT

I'm using the API to import some pages and I can get authenticate using a local user.
I would like to authenticate using a LDAP model.
My site is setup and using LADP very well but when I use the external user in the API I get an authentication error.

I see that there is a parameter on this page to allow this but how do I use it?
http://developer.mindtouch.com/Deki/...2fauthenticate

The C# example is what I followed.

Code:

Plug p = Plug.New("http://deki-hayes/@api/deki"); DreamMessage msg = p.At("users", "authenticate").WithCredentials("admin", "password").Post();

Changing the admin password and site url this code works but when the user has external authentication it is not working.

IIS: Site Settings Could Not Be Loaded

mrjinca — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:14:39 GMT

I am receiving the following when loading my Mindtouch.

Code:

Site settings could not be loadedWe were unable to locate the API to request site settings. Please see below for debugging information. HTTP Response Status Code: 500 The API says: wiki 'default' has failed to initialize or did not start up properly: Initialization exception: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Access denied for user 'wikiuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlStream.OpenPacket() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.NativeDriver.Authenticate411() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.NativeDriver.Authenticate() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.NativeDriver.Open() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.Driver.Create(MySqlConnectionStringBuilder settings) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlPool..ctor(MySqlConnectionStringBuilder settings) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlPoolManager.GetPool(MySqlConnectionStringBuilder settings) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection.Open(Boolean allowPooled) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection.Open() at MindTouch.Data.DataFactory.OpenConnection(String connectionString) at MindTouch.Data.DataCommand.Execute(Action`1 handler) at MindTouch.Deki.DataAccess.ConfigDA.ReadInstanceSettings() at MindTouch.Deki.Logic.ConfigBL.GetInstanceSettings() at MindTouch.Deki.Logic.ConfigBL.GetInstanceSettingsValue(String key, String def) at MindTouch.Deki.DekiInstance.Startup(DekiContext context) at MindTouch.Deki.DekiWikiService.d__120.MoveNext()

I did go into the database to change my wikidb password as I was trying to back it up and could not find the original password. I know an encrypted password is stored in the mindtouch.deki.startup.xml but I don't know how to fix this in the file.

Suggestions?

Thanks!


Topic creator	Philippe Starck
Topic creation date	01/23/2010
Associate branch head	03:23 PM
Individuals interested	Add your name below if you are interested in this idea Add names here