• Topic is local: this hides the topic from remote browsing; that is, only local clients (running on the same machine as the server) can ‘see’ the topic and its content

• Topic is read-only: only the snapshot (if any) will be visible, except to local clients and administrators

• Use private snapshot header and footer: this will use the pages ‘*snap-header’ and ‘*snap-footer’ as the header and footer for each snapshot page (if they exist – it is not required that there be a header or footer). By default, MemoWiki will provide a standard header and footer for each snapshot page. Note that if you change this setting the current snapshot (if any) will be deleted.

• Flag remote links (»): this requests that links in a topic page or reference that take the user outside the topic be flagged. This is the default (if not checked, remote links appear like page links). Note that if you change this setting the current snapshot (if any) will be deleted.

• Open remote links in a new window: this requests that links in a topic page or reference that take the user outside the topic be opened in a new window. This is the default (if not checked, remote links open in the same way as page links). Note that if you change this setting the current snapshot (if any) will be deleted.

• Clean deleted files on publish: if set, publishing a static snapshot will delete files which are on the server but not known to MemoWiki. This should only be used if a site is entirely maintained using MemoWiki, as otherwise it may delete files that have been placed manually. Also, some ISP web servers may report errors if this option is set.

• Days of history to keep: sets the number of days of editing history to keep. MemoWiki saves all changes in the past 24 hours, plus the most recent version for n days of edits; this sets n, which may be zero (the default is 3). Choose ‘All’ to keep one per edit day indefinitely.

• GPS datum (geographic model) to use for any GPS links: this sets the geographic model to use for GPS links. The following models are supported:

  WGS84 is the World Geodetic System », 1984

  EUR50 is the European 1950 system used for Spanish maps

  EUR79 is the European 1979 system used on many other European maps.

  The chosen model is used to adjust all GPS links in the topic.

Web publishing

If you are an administrator (or on the server’s machine), you can also choose to make the static snapshot of a topic publishable (typically using an Internet Service Provider’s web service). You will be offered the following four fields to fill in (if you don’t know what to fill in for any of these, contact your ISP):

• FTP server: enter the name or IP address of the FTP server that pages will be uploaded to (e.g., pages.myisp.com)

• Directory path: enter the directory path on the FTP server that defines where the HTML pages from the static snapshot will be placed (e.g., /pub/www)

• FTP userid: your login name (e.g., fred)

• FTP password: your login password (one word, case-sensitive).

Once all four of these have been set you can then publish a snapshot by creating (or updating) the topic’s static snapshot and then clicking the Publish button.

A fifth field is also offered:

• Check page URL: (optional) enter here the URL of a page that you might want to check before or after publishing the topic to the internet; if a URL is provided here than a link to the check page will be included on the update and published pages.

If the Check page URL does not include a protocol (e.g., http://) then http:// will be prefixed by MemoWiki.