Wiki formatting

Hatte,

What you want is this format: [url description] -- where "url" is the http://... address of the profile, and "description" is "Haim Margolis-Kalwaryiski" -- the url and the description are separated by a space, and the whole business is surrounded by square brackets. Be sure to NOT put spaces in front of it, or the wiki formatter will think that you're trying to preformat the text.

Here's my current wish list for potential items to be added in a future release of enhanced wiki formatting for projects, profiles, and even discussion pages:)

1) Tags for atuo table of contents based on =Header= text (ie a toc tag)
2) Horizontal ruled line ----
3) Project discussion topics that can respect preformatted or "code" syntax would be very helpful in the geni api project discussions.
4) Multi column tables with header rows for the collumns like the following:
|| Column 1 || Column 2 || Column 3||
5) Ability to have table data that is sorted automatically alphabetically by a designated column number.
6) Ability to use file:// links to add images to project pages.

--Randy

You forgot pictures...

Bjørn,

Linking in pictures (images) was #6 on my list :)
--Randy

Wow, Mike, thanks. I was following the syntax for piping somewhere and it was double brackets and a colon between the URL and the alternative name. I'll try this out tonight.

Hatte, I don't think these are available yet. These are just common wiki syntax (like found on Wikipedia) that would be useful here.

Agree with you Randy.. I'd also like to see us have the ability to use templates, so we could standardize the look if we so choose.

Mike Stangel The single brackets plus alternative name worked like a charm! Thanks again.

I has been writing on a big project. It is almost impossible. I have writen on wiki for years. Geni is back to stoneage. We need a geni-wiki

Opps, sorry, I was just looking at Randy's post, didn't see Mike's. URL links work. :-)

Hans,
there IS a Geni-Wiki, link at the bottom of every page... http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Main_Page

Wiki formatting (Bold, Italic) used in "About" part of profile is displayed wrongly here: http://www.geni.com/popular where in short overviews they are just like quotes...

I would like to add to Lauri Kreen's
The same problem appears with flipping nodes in tree view. The text entered in Wiki mode loses it's formatting and is just plain text.

An additional problem with Wiki formating appears when you post a link in the About field. Earlier clicking on the link triggered a new tab to open.
Now it behaves according to the formating:
1. While in Wiki format, the clicking on the link opens it in the same window.
2. While in plain text mode the new tab will open.
This is not a tragedy, just a little kink in UI, but it would be wise to address this issue as well.

Thanks Lauri and Arne, we'll get both of those fixed (though consequently we're going to have to show the truncated summary in the tree from now on)

Mike Stangel there is another annoyance which is not connected to Wikiformatting, but let me address it here.
In the Merge center there is a column "Tree Conflicts".
It should be considered to be a good cause to occasionally dabble there as well. Indeed these merges are there for a reason - they need a helping hand.
Unfortunately while visiting those problematic merges just to have an overview, your name will be connected to them even if you do nothing.
Just pressing the yellow triangle triggers your name to be attached to whatever problem somebody has arranged as "Updated by ..."
There are plenty of reasons to do nothing when you cannot help solving the problem, but it is not nice to get the stigma of being part of generating the problem you were never connected with.
Please mark us as updaters just and only when we really push the "Merge duplicates" button or "assign parents" link, and not when we push "Cancel" or just go back to the previous page.

Mike Stangel
Here is similar case mentioned:
http://www.geni.com/discussions/87218?msg=661762
+ also my post later.

Inside the edit profile changing nothing, but re-saving shall not create any revision as nothing inside it was changed.