=====Userpage of Nils Lindenberg===== >> {{rss url="http://del.icio.us/rss/niehle"}} >> ===Me, myself & I=== I am a student of social science at the university of Goettingen, Germany. ===My problem=== After years of working with various computers and surfing the internet, I have a huge collection of emails, saved webpages, bookmarks, word-documents, other documents adresses in local and web adressbooks, zip files etc. Not to mention tons of paper , notices etc. And I have searched years for a way to organize these informations, which means a) finding the things i am searching for and b) establishing relationships between them. ... ===The solution=== After testing some wikkas i finally moved to wikka. I made some little hacks to improve configurability, but mainly I am contributing to WikkaDocumentation. Since february 2005 i am a member of the [[CreditsPage | wikka crew]], where my topic of interest is mainly the documentation (big surprise, isn't it ;-) ::c:: ---- << Visit my [[NiehLe | clone]] to see what i am working on (always behind :) **contact** Leave a note or a comment on this page, sometimes I hang around on #wikka, too. **other links** [[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html | against the myth of bload programms]] [[http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/WikiAsPim | about using Wiki for personal information management]] << ====My thoughts about Wikka==== Although WikkaWiki is now a very interesting pice of software, there are always things which could be done better. And because I do not want to talk only, I made some contributions to wikka in the three fields which seem the most important to me: ===Documentation=== //There's no good representation without good documentation :)// The most important part for every project is a good documentation. This occurs to software, too. Not only for developers, but also for administrators and end-users. A documentation is only good if there are no questions remaining after reading it! ===Configurability=== Since people use wikka for many different purposes, wikka needs a maximum of configurability. My additions to that goal: 1) UserRegistration: An admin can choose if registration is disallowed, allowed only if you know a register-code, or allowed for everyone. This option (and the registration code) are stored in the config 1) StayingLoggedIn: Let the user choose if he wants to have permanent cookies with his name and password or only a session-based cookie (to be logged out when all browser windows are closed) 1) AutomaticUserPageCreation let an admin choose to create the page of a new user after his creation. As a template any wikkapage can be used. 1) PageAndCategoryDivisionInACategory seperation of pages and categories in the category action. 1) CommentsFormatting allows some (basic) formatting in comments. Problem with backwards compatibility :( <