CES NuWiki Special Pages was a vBulletin software plugin developed by Cracked Egg Studios that extended the features of NuHit's NuWiki, and became the precursor to VaultWiki. It was published on August 21, 2007, at vbulletin.org.
This plugin made a number of improvements to NuWiki, including:
The last version of CES NuWiki Special Pages to be published was 1.0.1 in August 2007. Development continued on a new version with additional features, such as automatic linking, into February 2008. By that time, NuWiki's lead developer ElfMage mysteriously disappeared, and users had already begun approaching Cracked Egg Studios on February 12, 2008, to take over NuWiki. This led to Cracked Egg Studios further extending CES NuWiki Special Pages, rewriting, and rebranding it as VaultWiki, a competing product to NuWiki. VaultWiki launched June 15, 2008.
This plugin made a number of improvements to NuWiki, including:
- Improved performance by reducing MySQL queries
- Added a wiki syntax parser, ala MediaWiki, to wiki content
- Allowed third-party developers to extend the wiki parser using vBulletin-based plugins
- Introduced namespaces so that multiple wiki pages could have similar names
- Introduced Special pages to sort wiki content and provide statistics
- Introduced friendly URLs to wiki content that included the pages' names
- Tracked internal wiki link connections to help guide wiki growth
The last version of CES NuWiki Special Pages to be published was 1.0.1 in August 2007. Development continued on a new version with additional features, such as automatic linking, into February 2008. By that time, NuWiki's lead developer ElfMage mysteriously disappeared, and users had already begun approaching Cracked Egg Studios on February 12, 2008, to take over NuWiki. This led to Cracked Egg Studios further extending CES NuWiki Special Pages, rewriting, and rebranding it as VaultWiki, a competing product to NuWiki. VaultWiki launched June 15, 2008.