Since the start of SWiK, we’ve had a pretty simplistic front page. It was one of the few pages that wasn’t editable or changeable.
We upgraded it along the way to highlight new projects that people were adding to the wiki, but now we’ve expanded that even more with the new tagging system.
Now you can feature a new project on the front page with a message about what it is and what makes it cool. Or if there is something new in an existing open source project, link to that and submit it to the front page. Go here to add something new.
What’s featured on the front page is controlled by you the user, based on your tagged pages. Tag stuff if you think it’s cool, and check out the ‘recently added’ page to see the up-to-the-minute stuff.
Try it out!
We’ve just added a new feature, you can now add wiki links in project Author and License fields.
This means that you will create a wiki link to the license, and at the same time, this will create a tag on the project, with the tag.
This also lets you do, http://swik.net/License:GPL+Java to see the most recent or most popular Java software that is licensed under the GPL.
Licenses must be prefixed with the word License: – authors however can be anything.
Rolled out Diff today – now you can see specifically what someone changed in the recent edits pages.
Check out the new Zeitgeist – in double super secret beta: Swik Zeitgeist
update: now linked on the front page – graduated to just regular secret beta