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html

Create some nice(r) stylesheets.

Should be doable w/o touching a single line of code, just editing the templates and/or editing style.css.

(posted Tue Jul 4 05:50:51 2006)

onlinepageediting

(posted Mon Jul 3 22:34:40 2006)

plugin

Suggestions of ideas for plugins:

All the kinds of plugins that blogging software has is also a possibility:

(posted Mon Jul 3 22:33:26 2006)

case

Being case insensative is handy, but it does make the BackLinks and blog links a bit ugly compared to other links. It should be possible to support pagenames that have uppercase, while still allowing them to be linked to using any case.

Also, newly created pagenames that include upper case characters should perhaps not automatically be converted to lower case then.

Also, it's currently possible to check in a filename with uppercase and ikiwiki will render it that way, but fail to edit it online and probably in other ways.

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

adding new pages by using the web interface

Perhaps I'm just too stupid to find the proper way to do this, but how would I add a new page to the wiki without selecting to edit an already installed one and frobbing the URL to direct to the to-be-created page? --?ThomasSchwinge

Good point. Of course one way is to start with creating a link to the page, which also helps prevent orphans. But other wikis based on CGI do have this a bit easier, since they can detect an attempt to access a nonexistant page and show an edit page. Ikiwiki can't do that (unless its web server is configured to do smart things on a 404, like maybe call ikiwiki.cgi which could be modified to work as a smart 404 -> edit handler).

Some wikis also provide a UI means for creating a new page. If we can find something good, that can be added to ikiwiki's UI. --Joey

Hmm, maybe just a preprocessor directive that creates a form inside a page, like is used for blog posting already would suffice? Then the main page of a wiki could have a form for adding new pages, if that directive were included there. Won't work for subpages though, unless the directive were added to the parent page. However, unconnected subpages are surely an even rarer thing to want than unconnected top level pages. --Joey

Maybe a very simple PHP frontend for serving the statically generated pages, that would display a page editing form or something like that for non-existent pages, wouldn't be too bad a thing and resource hog? Just a thought... --?Tuomov

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

multiple templates

Another useful feature might be to be able to choose a different template file for some pages; blog pages would use a template different from the home page, even if both are managed in the same repository, etc.

Well, that would probably be fairly easy to add if it used globlists to specify which pages use the non-default template.

Hmm, I think the pagetemplate hook should allow one to get close enough to this in a plugin now.

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

pageindexes

Might be nice to support automatically generating an index based on headers in a page, for long pages. The question is, how to turn on such an index? Well, make it a plugin enabled by a preprocessordirective.

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

link map

An idea: Use graphviz to generate a map of all the links between pages. (Could it be made clickable somehow?)

Graphviz can output image maps. -- ChristofferSawicki

This could be a plugin.

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

sigs

Need a way to sign name in page that's easier to type than "--[[Joey]]" and that includes the date.

What syntax do other wikis use for this? I'm considering "[[--]]" (with spaces removed) as it has a nice nmemonic.

OTOH, adding additional syntax for this would be counter to one of the design goals for ikiwiki: keeping as much markup as possible out of the wiki and not adding nonstandard markup. And it's not significantly hard to type "--[[Joey]]", and as to the date, we do have page history.

I'm also unsure how to possibly implement this. Seems ikiwiki would need to expand the rune to the user's name when a page is saved, but that leaves out svn commits.

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

automatic rebuilding of html pages

It seems that pages like Todo aren't rebuilt automatically when a new item is added using the web interface.

AFAIK this is working ok. For example, this page appears in TODO. Maybe you need to force-refresh the page in your web browser? --Joey

done

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

terminalclient

Hack together a local ikiwiki w/o a web server using w3m's cgi-less mode and $EDITOR. Browse around a wiki, select pages to edit and get dropped right into the editor and have the page committed to svn automatically.

Less grandiosely, a simple command line util to add a new page would be useful, especially if it made it easy to add blog entries to the wiki. I have a special purpose version of this in my blog script.

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

metadata

There should be a way to add metadata to a page. Probably a plugin could do this, for example:

\[[meta foo="bar"]]

Uses for this include:

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

blogging

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

optimisations

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

toplevel index

Some inconsistences around the toplevel index page:

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

improve globlists

Need to improve globlists, adding more powerful boolean expressions. The current behavior is to check for negated expressions, and not match if there are any, then check for normal expressions and match if any match, This fails if you want to do something like match only pages with tag foo that are under directory bar. I think we need parens for grouping, and probably also boolean OR.

(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)


Full list of open items:

html
(posted Tue Jul 4 05:50:51 2006)

onlinepageediting
(posted Mon Jul 3 22:34:40 2006)

plugin
(posted Mon Jul 3 22:33:26 2006)

case
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

adding new pages by using the web interface
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

multiple templates
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

pageindexes
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

link map
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

sigs
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

automatic rebuilding of html pages
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

terminalclient
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

metadata
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

blogging
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

optimisations
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

toplevel index
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)

improve globlists
(posted Sun Jul 2 01:43:23 2006)