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• We Need Your Help!
• Search for lots of topics that come to mind.
• See what you find via the search.
• Ask questions.

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• via: ZULIP channel: COS LEADERS, #Wiki Preview, “Feedback !” topic

• URL: "Feedback !" topic, #WikiPreview, COS LEADERS, Zulip

Topics You Might Address in your feedback:

• ease of using the wiki.
• what terminology about the wiki needs an explanation?
• search ability … can find what you are looking for ?
• what kind of searches did not provide the results hoped for?
• …
• (But — no need to comment on  content  of pages: because all pages are authored on, controlled, and mirrored from, COS/Citizen Builder!)

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Search from any page – a search box is in upper right corner of every page.

• schmoozing
• "|Change Author:"
• "|Change Author: |Jakob Fay"
• disengaged
• profession
• terrifying
• Trafalgar
• whycallcos

More details of how to Search is described on that page at the link.

The wiki's Sitemap shows a list of titles of the pages in the wiki, sorted by title, and grouped by namespaces. Open up the `public » cb_mirror` namespace to see the list of the tens of thousands of pages mirrored from Citizen Builder (CB).

“Namespaces” is the wiki terminology for directory, or folder. One can search on page titles using the browser's <ctrl>-F — find feature.

Folders can be used to organize wiki pages. Access permissions are usually applied to folders (namespaces).

• `playground` – a place to try out page editing features.

• `public » cb_mirror`– the collection of public `resource` pages mirrored from Citizen Builder (CB), i.e., conventionofstates.com.

• `rack_cards` – an internal testing zone.

• `wiki` – the help files live here.

“Namespaces” is the wiki terminology for directory, or folder.

Folders can be used to organize wiki pages.

Access permissions are usually applied to folders (namespaces).

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A key, new, capability provided by this wiki project is to “mirror” pages and documents from Citizen Builder (CB) to the Wiki — which provides full-text search.

The types of items mirrored from CB include pages, blogs, video pages, and files — which includes PDFs & word processing documents.

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By mirroring these pages, the Wiki provides a full-text search capability of Resources published on Citizen Builder (CB).

(Why this is needed: because the search of CB “Resources” area in CB is limited to search of keywords on the item's abstract – if any keywords exist. CB's search engine does not do full-text indexing and searching.)

These mirrored Wiki pages are not expected to be edited on the Wiki — because they are a mirror.

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Only “public” pages are mirrored to the WikiPreview of OCT 30 2025:

• Public: viewable by anyone on Internet (the “general public”).   [Read only.]

Future iterations of WikiPreview will include

• Internal, COS-only, pages.
• Login to COS (via OAuth; like with COSU) required (and for certain docs, a Role or Geo location from the person's CB profile required).
• [Read only. Mirrored pages are always read only.]

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1 - This WikiPreview is a static snapshot of a point in time of CB pages.

2 - Therefore, documents / pages newer than OCT 30 2025 will not appear in the WikiPreview, nor in search results in the WikiPreview.

3 - When the production wiki is rolled out:

• the wiki updater / refresher software

• detects changed CB pages (using database triggers and procedures),

• when a document is added, updated, or deleted on CB, it

• makes the corresponding change on the wiki.

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     1 - Rights & Access
     2 - File Conversion & Mirroring

     # PUBLIC     > 21,000
     # INTERNAL   > 850
     
     Resource Items Mirrored: 
     #  File Type Counts in PUBLIC

     Blogposts:  12571
     Pages:       4463
     Video:       3333
     Files:       1127

     `type`      `sub-DIR`
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     blogposts    /news/
     pages        /
     videos       /videos/
     files        /files/

     id       | 18654
     title    | Bring America Back to Life Convention 2023
     slug     | bring-america-back-to-life-convention-2023

     docx
     pdf
     png
     pptx
     xlsx
     zip

     * Internal  -- COS Login required; possibly role/geo 
     * Public    -- open to the general public
     
     * Internal
          - cb_mirror  --   Resource items copied from 
     * Public
          - cb_mirror