CES NuWiki Display Title was a vBulletin software plugin developed by Cracked Egg Studios that extended the features of NuHit's NuWiki. This plugin began development on June 10, 2007, was announced on nuhit.com on August 2, 2007, and was discontinued October 26, 2007.
In MediaWiki in 2007, a wiki's main landing page had the title "Main Page," and it was customary for landing pages in other namespaces to share the convention. Although this limitation did not exist in NuWiki, it was typical for users with a background in MediaWiki to continue this as practice, especially if the content had been migrated from that software. This convention was not ideal for wikis like Crackipedia, which preferred to have a custom name such as The Vault. In addition, there were situations where editors often wanted the main heading on a page to differ, whether slightly in grammar or in phrasing, or for other effect, from the title text used to generate the wiki content URL.
This plugin altered the appearance of a page's title for display purposes, by replacing it with other defined text, using the
It was in use on crackedeggstudios.com from June 10, 2007, through October 26, 2007, but it is unclear whether the plugin was ever released to the general public. The studio did not keep its own records of this information, and the web sites where the releases would have been posted no longer exist.
This plugin was discontinued when Cracked Egg Studios combined all of its core functionality into the plugin CES NuWiki Parser Extensions. The studio did not maintain copies of its discontinued software prior to 2014. Thus, it is believed that no copies of this plugin survive to this day.
In MediaWiki in 2007, a wiki's main landing page had the title "Main Page," and it was customary for landing pages in other namespaces to share the convention. Although this limitation did not exist in NuWiki, it was typical for users with a background in MediaWiki to continue this as practice, especially if the content had been migrated from that software. This convention was not ideal for wikis like Crackipedia, which preferred to have a custom name such as The Vault. In addition, there were situations where editors often wanted the main heading on a page to differ, whether slightly in grammar or in phrasing, or for other effect, from the title text used to generate the wiki content URL.
This plugin altered the appearance of a page's title for display purposes, by replacing it with other defined text, using the
{{displaytitle:...}} syntax.It was in use on crackedeggstudios.com from June 10, 2007, through October 26, 2007, but it is unclear whether the plugin was ever released to the general public. The studio did not keep its own records of this information, and the web sites where the releases would have been posted no longer exist.
This plugin was discontinued when Cracked Egg Studios combined all of its core functionality into the plugin CES NuWiki Parser Extensions. The studio did not maintain copies of its discontinued software prior to 2014. Thus, it is believed that no copies of this plugin survive to this day.
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