We've been reviewing a lot of the Wiki documentation in the "Dummies" book and elsewhere.  In our install we have version 04.00.01.  And we keep running into some more fundamental issues that we need to get working to our needs. Here are a couple of the bigger roadblocks we are having to making this module really sing.

1. It seems we are missing a lot of the functions for readers, editors, and administrators (e.g. in no particular order like the door, raking, mychanges, view button, backlinks, diffs, minor changes, etc.) that should be there, unless they were omitted from this module in comparison to earlier versions?! 

2. Another bigger one is, we would like to have a way to just let someone click make a new topic without having to [[embed]] it in an existing topic. Is this possible?  Would be great!

3. We want to be able to have more controls over topics in the wiki than a "registered user" editor.  For example, registered users can delete a post AND all its history, presumeably requiring the administrator to restore a previously backed up.  There are reference to "maintenance button" but we can't for the life of us find where this is. 

4. And on a related point, we need to be able to back the wiki up and/or export it.  Primiarily for the purpose of being able to restore a given topic without having to go back and restoring the entire dbase to the last previous back up point.

Maria

Awesome response Chris, much appreciated, makes things very clear going forward.  Fair comment about development on the wiki module and timing, we are keen to stay tuned on this.  And if we need to accelerate timing, we appreciate knowing about the option.  This is a bit side-of-the-desk for us now, but look forward much to the new release!  

On the "create a new topic" thing from a design POV, if you're saying that such a new topic is available in the index only and not searchable, that is a big limitation. But if its in the index and searchable, that is great.  Searchability (and findability) is the key.

Maria