Summary: This page is dedicated to requests for the Wiki made by Loadsgood.
NB: In no way is this a complete list of all the requests Loadsgood has for the Wiki. This page will be updated for any new requests that Loadsgood has made.

Due to the many requests I have for the Wiki to be updated, this Wiki page was created and contains each of the requests made by me and any made in the future. Once a request is completed, they can be put in the Completed Requests section which resides underneath the Requests section. Comments can be made in the Comment section by referencing the number of the request you are commenting on, followed by your comment, followed by your WikiSignature {eg. Request: 2). I confirm that bug in IE. -- LoadsGood.}

Requests

WikiEdit Page

* 1) When making a new page on the WikiEdit page, why is the "Please review the description of this WikiBase etc." comment there? It serves no real purpose and knowing what the description of the WikiBase doesn't help me know whether this new page should go here or not...
* 2) Please fix the problem where a new page is made there is no Save button only a preview button.
* 3a) When making a new page the default text in the text box is:

		 Check out the formatting tips on the right for help formatting and making links.

		 Use the template below:

		 Summary: add a one or paragraph summary or description of what's discussed here;  put yours after 'Summary:'

		 Add your wiki text here.

* 3b) This text is wrong, the formatting tips are on the left, not the right :)
* 4) Any chance of the formatting tips having <BR> in between each other? Or maybe even a comma would suffice. This would help clear the confusion between tips.
* 5) The current method of creating a new page is confusing/not obvious for some new users. To create a Wiki page you have to type its name next to http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9. (replacing Channel9 with the WikiBase of your choice). This seems easy to do once you actually know how to do it, but not knowing this is likely to put you off Wikis because they seem too hard. To help those of new there should be a link in the left hand side bar on all of the WikiBases that leads to a page with a box and a 'Go' button. Underneath those things would be instructions on what this page is and how to use it. Entering the name of the Wiki page you'd like to create and clicking 'Go' would either take you to the WikiEdit page with the appropriate topic if the page hasn't been created yet, or to the actual page if it has been created. This would have a built in security feature that would prevent users from creating pages with any non alphanumeric characters in the title. Users attempting to visit a Wiki page that hasn't been created yet will be redirected to this page with the title of the page they were trying to go to in the text box. This is a lot more user friendly than the current manual way of getting to the edit page to create a new page, and more secure.

RSS

* 6) A per page RSS feed for the Wiki is essential for its future growth. Microsoft Teams currently using the C9 Wiki for feedback/bugs need to know when someone edits their products page and what was added/changed. The IE7 team would most likely want to only subscribe to the IE7 Wiki pages so as to give faster responses/bug fixes and they don't need to have to dig through all the other pages to find out who has edited the IE7 pages. Currently Wiki users are forced into subscribing to the Channel9 WikiBase RSS feed to find out when/who edits a page within that WikiBase, not what was edited. The C9 WikiBase RSS feed should contain the last five (or ten etc.) pages edited, and have the last three or so peoples edits on those pages. It should detail what was edited/added to an extent of 500 characters or so, once that limit is reached it would end with "For more go here." the more bit would link to that persons edit with the ?diff=y on the end of the url.
* 7) An RSS feed that covers what people edit/add undeneath all of the WikiBases. Currently the other WikiBases are not as popular as the Channel9 one and that is because people have to go out of their way to find out about them, the other ones are just not publicized enough. Access to them is not easy. If there was an overall RSS feed for the entire Wiki then it would publicize the other WikiBases and give easier access to them.
* 8) The Wiki not being in the master Channel9 feed is a sign of how much the C9 Team care about the Wiki. They don't :( They make it look like: "There's Channel9 here it houses this this this and this... Then there's the Wiki," (several people cough and splutter at this part of the tour) "Quickly moving on..." All the C9Team have to do is figure out the right way to put Wiki content onto RSS (as in, should we only show who last edited the page, or should we give them a snippet of the content?) and then prefix anything from the RSS with 'Wiki:'. That provides enough to show that the Wiki is actually part of Channel9 while not confusing people with the sudden adding of the Wiki to the master RSS. Heck, even prefix new threads with the forum they came from to prevent people spoofing that what they wrote came from the Wiki by putting 'Wiki:' in front of the thread title.

Search

* 9) The Wiki search is lacking in security and in results. I recommend porting the Wiki onto the "limit to specific forums" list on the search page (obviously having all the different WikiBases on there) and removing the current Wiki search page. That means that the admins can fix Channel9's search all in one go, as well as providing a clean way for results of the search in the Wiki to be shown to users.

Tooltips

* 10) The previous method of implementation of the link tooltips was a lot better than the current implementation. The old implementation had the tooltips for the links I hovered over below the link, instead the tool tips now appear at the top of the left hand side bar, this isn't great for big tooltips or links at the bottom of pages where the top of the page cannot be seen. Although the old implementation slowed the loading of pages a great deal because they had to download each of the "Summary:"s on the pages that were linked. Is there some method to download the info when the link has been hovered over and only then? That would be the best solution. The tooltips below the links when hovered over and the information downloaded when the link has been hovered over.

Wikis link in the silver bar

* 11) That link should be a menu with links to other WikiBases on it, somewhat like the forums link is. The "More..." link at the bottom of the Wikis list would link to a page with links to all of the WikiBases and descriptions of what they will/do contain.

Security

* 12) Anonymous users can restore Wiki pages to a previous state.

Errors

* 13) In Opera, when I resize the window or open a new tool bar while viewing a page in the wiki I get this error(EDIT: I actually get this throughout Channel9, not just in the Wiki):

		 Channel9 Wiki
		 [http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wikiedit.aspx?topic=Channel9.LoadsgoodsWikiRequests]
		 Event thread: resize
		 Error:
		 name: [TypeError]
		 message: Statement on line 75: Could not convert undefined or null to object
		 Backtrace:
		  Line 75 of linked script [http://channel9.msdn.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/scripts/subMenu.js]
		    smFly.style.left = - 500;
		  Line 107 of linked script [http://channel9.msdn.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/scripts/subMenu.js]
		    hideSm();
		  At unknown location
		    [statement source code not available]

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