STE

Wikidot's backup feature is limited. For one, it doesn't preserve important information such as parent-child links, page titles and tags. This suggestion is for a backup feature to be implemented that records everything that can be recorded using the API.

Therefore, the following will not be included:

• Previous revisions of pages (history)

The following will be included:

• Page meta data (parent, title, tags, created_by, updated_by, created_at, updated_at, etc.)
• Forum posts and associated info (post ID, created_by, created_at, and the actual post contents)
• Everything else that you get from Wikidot's official backups

This could be implemented in STE, or in a separate specialised application that provides an "open in STE" option when you select a page.

Things that you could then do with this downloaded backup of a site:

• Manually update at any time, meaning the backup will re-download any pages that have been created or edited since the last backup (therefore initial backup may take a while, but future 'backup updates' are much faster)
• Search a whole site's pages for a specific word (searching for phrases can be added later)
• Backups will be stored in an app-specific format, so an export feature would be useful, which would create a new folder and add each page as a .txt document (or a .ste document which also saves meta data: parent, tags, title, etc)

Much more could also be done with this… any suggestions?