The code running at:

http://www.piclab.com/newwiki/wiki.phtml

is now in a state where I believe all the features I intended to have working for release are working. I'd like to have as many Wikipedians as possible pound on it for a few days while I work on a transition plan for installing it on the new server.

The code is labelled and frozen and will not change during this test period. Please use the Sourceforge pages (there are links on the site) to report bugs. At the end of the test period, those bugs that I think can be fixed without destabilizing anything will be fixed and tested by me, and that version will be the first one installed on the new server (which will also get some testing before migrating the live database).

Feel free to make new feature requests too, but I will not be adding any significant new features to this release--only bug fixes that are unlikely to destabilize anything.

Known issues:

Not all quickbar options work well on all browsers. It just isn't possible. "Fixed left" should work for everyone, and is the default. "Fixed right" works just about everywhere except Netscape 4.x. "Floating left" can produce odd displays on some pages (notably those with wide images or tables) on I.E., but otherwise works pretty well on all browsers I've tried. I will consider fixing bugs in this area only if (1) "Fixed left" fails for some browser, or (2) Some common browser has a display so messed up that it's hard to switch back to the default. "None" should work for everyone as well.

The "StarTrek" skin is gone. Good riddance, as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't work in the present code anyway, and very few users have the setting--likely none of them are active. "Standard" is the default, but I'm open to the idea of making "Cologne Blue" the default instead if people think that's the right thing to do. I think "Standard" will work well for more people, though, because of the shorter sidebar, and it's more likely to resemble the user's own browser default settings.

The size of the edit area is controlled by your user settings. It now defaults to 80 columns by 20 rows, which you can change. I know the current code fills the browser window with the box automatically, but it's difficult to get that to work well in all browsers, so I left out that feature. 0