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You could have a menu selection "Wikis" just like you do now for "Message Boards". There would be multiple wikis, not just one. So there would be a "All Wikis" selection on the Wikis menu, which would bring up the list of all wikis.
The basic idea is that a wiki = a forum. So you already have all the code in place to handle these wikis.
It would be great to pick a programming forum (say, the C# forum), and have a little list pop up with a list of wikis recently viewed by other C# forum visitors - sort of like what Amazon does.
Wikis would not be associated with a category. Think of a thread in the Lounge - that's what a wiki would be, essentially a forum. A wiki could discuss a book, a programming technique, or anything else that you see scattered among the various Lounge and programming forums; these wikis would be a handy way to say, Go take a look at this wiki.
Each wiki would have its own name; offering readers the opportunity to tag a wiki would make them even more accessible.
The wikis would offer another point of entry into the site, each wiki representing the collective opinion on a topic by the CP community.
modified on Friday, September 25, 2009 8:49 AM
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The new Quick Answers system will cover this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It seems that the CP home page is now oriented toward whatever is selected on the orange Article Category bar (under the green menu bar)....
Except: the MOST POPULAR list includes all categories, not just the category you have specifically told the hamsters that you want to see. I would like to see only the most popular in the category I have selected.
[Edit] If you select All Topics, the MOST POPULAR list would display what it does currently.
modified on Friday, September 25, 2009 5:10 AM
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But surely articles and advice is the raison d'etre of CP?
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Steve Harris 2009
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Dalek Dave wrote: But surely articles and advice is the raison d'etre of CP?
What do you mean? I was referring only to the contents of the MOST POPULAR list, as it is displayed on the home page.
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I understand now.
Yes now you mention it, it does seem odd.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: It seems that the CP home page is now oriented toward whatever is selected on the orange Article Category bar (under the green menu bar)....
Been like that for years 
Hans Dietrich wrote: the MOST POPULAR list includes all categories, not just the category you have specifically told the hamsters that you want to see
This isn't what I'm seeing (nor what the code says its doing). I click on All Topics and it shows one set of popular articles. I click on C# and the Most Popular is now a different list.
One issue that you have highlighted, though, is that some articles that are appearing in the lists should not be there. This is an attribution issue. I'll ask Sean to go through and clean them up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It used to be that if you wanted a blank line within a code block you had to type at least a SPACE on the line, but even that didn't work on my last post, I'll try here:
Hello
world
Plus when the textbox has a scrollbar, the text has been jumping around as I type this afternoon.
P.S. I'm currently using IE8.
P.P.S. OK, I'm sure when I first wrote this post I had one SPACE on the blank line. I came back and checked and there was none, so I added one. Now I check again and there are two! 
modified on Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:40 PM
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You haven't been drinking your usual today? 
The need for a space has disappeared eons ago (good!), and I didn't notice anything special today.
Maybe you changed your checkboxes somehow (the foursome below the edit box)?
Luc Pattyn
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Well, do you see a blank line between Hello and world?
I'll try again with no SPACE:
Hello
world
And with lang="cs":
Hello
world
Luc Pattyn wrote: You haven't been drinking your usual today?
Just coffee so far (hours ago), but now it's margarita time!
Luc Pattyn wrote: The need for a space has disappeared eons ago
Not in my experience. I believe even last week I had to edit a post because I had forgotten one.
modified on Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:37 PM
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no.
no.
the following is an empty line
i.e. I typed this text with two consecutive ENTERs, no spaces in between.
Maybe you are pasting something with a different newline string? From some Notepad thingy?
Or maybe it is browser dependent (wouldn't know how). I'm using FF3.0
Luc Pattyn
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Luc Pattyn wrote: browser dependent
Maybe, IE8, I guess I should have said so in my post. I was using IE7 up until a couple of weeks ago.
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this is an
IE7 test
Yet another reason to drop IE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luc Pattyn
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OK, now accessing via AOL (IE6? 5?) and it has the blank line when a SPACE is present, not when there isn't.
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OK,
IE7 shows no empty line for double ENTER entered by FF3 or IE7
FF3 shows an empty line for double ENTER entered by FF3 or IE7
==> it is an IE rendering problem.
It reminds me of the "missing table cell" phenomenon:
on a regular table, with tr and td tags, if one of the rows lacks a td /td pair, it shows fine on FF but not on IE, and I just learned yesterday there is some CSS command to say explicitly what should happen to "empty-cell"s
Luc Pattyn
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Luc Pattyn wrote: "missing table cell"
More than just an empty cell? Causing you to insert a ?
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<td> </td>
Luc Pattyn
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Luc Pattyn wrote: no.
no.
Whoops, that's because I forgot to put them there. 
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Adding a blank line works when using the WYSIWYG editor.
Line 1
Line after blank line
I did this using:
<pre>Line 1
Line after blank line</pre>
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My current view is:
IE7 shows no empty line for double ENTER entered by FF3 or IE7
FF3 shows an empty line for double ENTER entered by FF3 or IE7
==> it is an IE rendering problem.
Luc Pattyn
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Ah. In IE8 when you use 'compatibility mode' the blank line disappears.
How truly odd.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I haven't installed IE8, I'll wait some more. And I avoid using IE7, all I use it for is checking my web pages when they are almost done.
Using FF2, then FF3, I haven't had any empty-line problems for many months now. I hope it will stay that way.
Luc Pattyn
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At the moment, they're all displaying the blank line. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: compatibility mode
IIRC, there is a mode that deliberately does not follow HTML/CSS standards (but tries to be as wrong as IE7) and of course that is what Microsoft calls compatibility mode; whereas the way that is supposed to follow the official standards would be "incompatible" in their view.
Luc Pattyn
Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!
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There is IE8 mode and IE7 mode (compatibility mode). IE7 is far less compliant than IE8 so sites designed for IE7 can break on IE8. Then there is Standards and Quirks mode, and in Quirks mode all sorts of little weirdnesses (besides the normal browser weirdnesses) are introduced.
Our pages render in Standards mode, so it's just an issue with IE7 vs IE8 rendering. I'll have to look into what I can do to workaround it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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