Content Management

Inclusions

Cards can include other cards inside them.  Inclusion has many benefits:

• Edit inclusions in place, making them faster and easier than editing whole pages.
• Keep data current. a card's updates (e.g., an address or event info) appear everywhere it's included.
• Display the same card in different ways using inclusion views.  Eg, closed view let you use space more efficiently.
• Specify content patterns with inclusion-based formats.

Views

A lot of Wagn's flexibility hinges on putting everything into cards, and then offering a wide variety of views of those cards. Views are most often applied via inclusions or WQL, and are especially useful in formatting.

Layouts

Don't like the way Wagn looks? Customize! You can change the color scheme and more by changing the CSS, and you can change the whole layout of the page for a particular card or any set of cards.

Formatting

Forms are content patterns. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts, sports cards, restaurant menus, user profile pages, tax documents and nutrition labels each have their own pattern of what information is included, and how it is laid out. These patterns help you compare and contrast information visually, and to notice missing information.

 

Wagn lets you create forms and apply them to sets of cards, so they contain the same kinds of information, in the same layout.  It does so using two settings: *content and *default

 

Settings

Settings control various options about how a card looks and behaves. Each card's Options tab has a "settings" subtab that lets you configure the settings that apply to that card.

 

Settings are applied to sets of cards, which may be as specific as a single card, or as broad as all cards. Learn more about Sets.

 

Dynamism

WYSIWYG

WYSYWIG = What You See Is What You Get

Wagn uses the customizable TinyMCE editor for user-friendly editing of rich text, so that users don't have to learn a lot of markup.

Search bar

The search bar — at the top of every page — is where you go to find something in your Wagn. You can also add new cards from it. Note that it only searches for letters and numbers, other characters (except _ ) are stripped out.

Auto-Save

Suppose you're editing a card and click "Cancel", or your browser crashes, or you leave or close the page without saving. Wagn will have saved what you're working on so that you can recover it later.

Database

Wagn Query Language

WQL, pronounced "wuckle", stands for Wagn Query Language — a query language based on an organic wiki structure.

WQL provides syntax for finding lists of cards, a staple of Wagn sites.

Types

Card Types are a powerful tool for organizing information on Wagn. Every card has a type, and that type shapes what kind of information goes into each card. 

Community

Notifications

Wagn lets you watch cards, or even all cards of a given type. You get an email when other people change any of those cards.

Accounts

Accounts help manage Wagn permissions and make it easier to see who's doing what.

 

Every account has an associated card (typically a User card). When someone is signed in, a link to their card will show up on comments they make, in Recent Changes next to cards they've edited, etc.

Revisions

Security

Captcha

CAPTCHA is an anti-spam device - usually a little picture of a word that a user has to type in before submitting a form. Wagn now uses a cool service called ReCaptcha, which uses the feedback from captchas to digitize books.

Permissions

Wagn's permissions system uses 5 settings: *create, *read, *update, *delete, and *comment

Backups

All hosted Wagns are fully backed up and rapidly restorable.

 

To back up your own Wagn, the easiest way at present is to do a full data dump - we do not yet have simple export.