Wish List

Here is a beginning collated wish list for the Evolutionary Nexus site.

There are two good ways to incorporate your suggested improvements to this page:

edit the page directly to contribute a change to the proposal
use the "add new comment" feature to talk about your ideas and/or the reasoning behind the changes you make.

Please do not simply delete items. We have to come up with a good way to prioritize.

1. General

Bookmarks (at comment or topic level or wiki page)
More profile info such as phone # and location (also bio, files such as resume, link to home page). There's a profile.module built in, and another one with different capabilities - http://drupal.org/project/members
Clarify read/write auth controls and policy
Very obvious visual clues to tell you whether you're on a wiki page, forum, blog, etc.
Replace or supplement the current taxonomy with open tagging capability, like del.icio.us or Flickr
RSS/Atom feeds for blogs, forums, wiki RecentChanges, etc.

1a. Navigation

Recent Activity links (hits, top users, top pages, referrers, posts)
Blog links (Salon blog, My blog, Member blogs (which lists blog authors by name))
Admin links (items like "image galleries" that are only for admins should not be visible to other users)
"Create content" goes to a nice page that has links for creating the various content types; why is "blog entry" given privileged status as a dropdown item in the nav?
Maybe group my blog and my subscriptions under My Account?

2. Search

Search should cover the forums!
Structured search (range control; poster name; date; boolean; quoted strings; etc.)

3. Forums (many of these items are also relevant to wiki pages and their replies)

Condensed view option: indented title list or VERY brief excerpts
Sequence option: new entries last (suggest this be the default)
Default anon access or other as decided, but have a default that is not "no access"! See Forums open to whom?
Nesting topics
Uploaded files linked within posting
Inline images

This is already possible. Just click on the 'Insert/edit image' button in the edit window. --Floris

4.Wiki (also see Wikifying Drupal)

Ability to link to wiki pages by name (rather than only by URL) - WikiWords and Brackets to make links. (done!)
Linking to pages that don't exist yet (a powerful way we do inquiry in wiki) (done!)
Backlinks (something you can click on to see a list of the pages that link to the current page)
Naked URLs become links (done via urlfilter)
A list of Recent Changes to the wiki (a block of changes to Book nodes should do it)
Linking by name to other Drupal pages - e.g. user pages, forums, blogs (coming...)
Access to earlier versions of a page, and a way to see what's been changed (aka diff)

You can already see the different 'revisions' (tab at top of page). Real 'diff' viewing could be possible by using the diff module: http://drupal.org/project/diff --Floris
Not seeing a revisions tab. Maybe only visible to admins?

An easy way to embed images (in most wikis, the URL to an image embeds the image)
Wiki markup for bullet points, horizontal bars italics/bold, etc. - this would be in addition to, not instead of, the wysiwyg thing already installed, and would makes pasting from other wikis much easier.

5. IM/Chat/IRC

Integrated IM or IRC function: with email defaults off and the time lags in delivering contact mail, there's no easy way to contact people online

Could be possible with the chatbox module: http://drupal.org/project/chatbox --Floris

6. Subscriptions

7. Homepage

8. Library

9. Admin

User activity, posts, pages by time period (e.g., how many this week, month, cumulative?)
A real bug database!
Will all admins etc. please consider turning email contact "on" (go to 'my account', then to 'edit'. Scroll down to the 'Personal contact form' and check it on)
capability to move subtree from one forum/topic to another (good for keeping threads on topic, also for archiving completed requests)

10. Calendar

Activity