wikipreview.qacos.com

• 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: #Wiki Preview in COS LEADERS

• URL: #WikiPreview — Zulip channel in COS LEADERS

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?

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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 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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The pages on the wikipreview of OCT 30 2025 are only “public”:

• Public. Viewable by anyone on Internet (the “general public”). Read only.

Future iterations of wikipreview will include

• Internal, COS-only. Login to COS (via OAuth) required (and for certain docs, a Role or Geo location on 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.