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The Diderot WikiWriter alpha has been released.

Diderot is going to become the first full-featured, offline-online Wikipedia Editor with

  • Source Coloring
  • Source Folding
  • integrated Browser Window
  • Category Browser
  • Asynchronous Put and Get of Wikipedia Pages (you don’t have to wait until a page is saved)
  • Parallel Editing of Multiple Articles

In the future, we plan to add a variety of new features:

  • Recent Change Agent with Notification Function, able to process RegEx
  • Search & Replace with RegEx
  • Integrated Watchlist with automated update
  • Automatic resolving of Redirects
  • and many other ... participate and submit a Feature Request on our Project Summary Page at http://wikiwriter.sourceforge.net !

A collaborative editing feature would also be nice, see Collaborative editing.

On the Project Homepage at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiwriter you can find an installer for Windows.

The package will currently only run under WinXP, but in the future we will try to support unix platforms as well.

This will depend on volunteers to tackle some developement tasks. Any pythonists are welcome to participate.

The project is based on python and comes with a PSF licence. Sources can be found on the project page on http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiwriter.

IMPORTANT

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This announce is in some way a test on how many interest there is in such a tool. So please put your vote on If there is positive feedback from the community, the project should soon grow into some stable beta release.

Please use the sourceforge trackers to submit your feature requests or mailto:wikiwiki(at)vr(dash)web(dot)de.

The final alpha release announce will be posted in the next days.

Enjoy!

Christoph Mussenbrock

Comments from the community

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Just read about Diderot; looks awesome! If I could clone myself, one of me would help write it. Cphoenix 14:58, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Am surprised at the level of sophistication of the tool. Very well done. Chris Mahan. On an aside, do we have a web services interface in xmlrpc to edit article and do other such things?

The browse by category part of this would be great for a CD/DVD version. Is it possible to split that off from the rest so you could have the browse part without the editing part for static releases? Angela 23:58, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I will use this tool as soon as it is released

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  1. one vote from me 08:50, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  2. You have my vote
  3. Seconded --162.115.172.125 20:17, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  4. Wow! This is amazing! :-) -- Nichtich 11:09, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  5. Looks really good! I'll at least have a look at it... if it offers enough features over browser-based editing, I'll use it! -- Tomcat 11:51, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  6. I would love this. Would it work with any site using MediaWiki? I've been thinking about porting the parser code to PHP for a (hopefully) similar effect. --Astronouth7303
  7. nice stuff --Moolsan 21:07, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  8. can't wait.....
  9. sounds fantastic. +sj+ 19:46, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  10. Full support. villy 12:00, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  11. Count me in --Cameron 00:55, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  12. I'll use it
  13. I want it now!
  14. Yes! Jojalozzo 18:52, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Uuh, not many since 2004. To me it looks like typically a tool which will not be understood by the users before it is released, and thereafter, if it is well done, might get in use by a lot of frequent wikipedia authors, like me.--Fluss (talk) 08:23, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would use this tool, but I don't know what WinXP means

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  • Eloquence 12:14, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) (WinXP? Is this some fancy new Linux distribution? I use Debian)
  • Hashar 18:10, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • --192.115.133.133 19:19, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • 193.201.52.136 17:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC) (I hear WinXP is one of the poorer Linux distributions, Eloquence- supposedly it eschews package management even more so than Slackware, but doesn't even bother to provide Slackware's reliability.)[reply]
  • Since it's Python, what Windows-specific functionality is at issue? Is there a core Python codebase us Mac and Linux people could use, just putting a shell around it? E.G. with Eclipse or X-Tools?

I do not have any needs for such a tool

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Volunteers

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I herewith declare that I am willing to participate on the project:

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