> * An improved WYSIWYG editor with the following features:
> - cut and paste from Word and web pages easily i.e. without having
> to go
> back and adjust the formatting of what's been pasted onto an XWiki
> page
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> - if some wiki markup or code on a page could muckup the layout of
> the menu
> bars, etc can XWiki catch it and prevent it from doing that?

Thanks for these numerous suggestions. Richard, could you please add them to the http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewWysiwygEditorBasedOnGwt page so that we can take them into account while working on the editor's new version ? There's indeed a lot to do and to think about in terms of how to display code & wiki syntax in the WYSIWYG editor.

> I think how useful and useable the WYSIWYG editor is effects the users
> experience and whether they'like and want to use XWiki.

Agreed. Which is why we're working on its specification in order to start its implementation ASAP. User feedback during this process would be more than welcome.

> * A way of sending emails to XWiki so they can be stored, archived and
> referenced from a wiki page.

Yep, I remember some talking about this.

BTW I wonder if XWiki Watch could be used for this? We'd just need to
hook a mailbox + a POP module (or a mailing list archive reader) and
it should work just fine I think.

I'm not sure this is the most relevant way to do it. I'd rather see an email archive application that would work this way -> you send an email to a given address (say emailarchive@yourxwikiserver.com) .

The email is converted into a wiki page with an unique identifier based on its subject, sender, date etc. The page metadata uses the email info to fill in the author & creation date. A check would probably be needed for protected page (add the email only if the sender's email adresses matches the one of an user who has rights on that page).

An index page lists all the email and allows filtering & searching them.

A macro allows to quote a mail in a page (could be done with #includeTopic(MailArchive.UniqueEmailIdentifier) actually)

Anyway more discussions would be needed to decide whether that application would be worth making it into XE 1.4 (though I'd be glad to have it).

Here is some additional feedback I gathered :

Migration

Make the migration between 2 versions of XWiki even easier than it is now (some bugs remain, making upgrades a chore on many occasions).

Applications

Remove unfinished applications (such as the calendar & the photo album) from the default distribution and put them as XARs on XWiki.org instead

Translations

Replace all text in the default wiki with $msg.get() calls and update the translation file to include EN & FR translations for all of them.

Administration

Add a select box to the language selection field
Add explanations next to each field to explain what they do
Groups : add a button "Add a member to this group" on group pages (below the list of group members)

Space Administration

Add the ability to customize the color of a space easily in Toucan
Add the possibility to use the Panel Wizard for a space

Autosuggest

Generalize the autosuggest feature to most input fields on the wiki

I'll try to post some more once I've received it.

Guillaume