=====Userpage of Nils Lindenberg=====

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===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.
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===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 ;-)

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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]]

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====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 :(

<<Links to read on:
http://www.cooper.com/articles/art_goal_directed_design.htm - designing for users, not for programmers
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000059.html - choose which choises you give to users
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===Compatibility===
To use Wikka to store informations it is necessary to be as compatible to other programms (and older versions of wikka) as possible. So that wikka becomes no information-oneway, but a "crossing point" ;-) My addition to that goal:
1) HandleCsvData is a library which shall contain functions for, well, handling (reading, writing, sorting etc..) data from and to *.csv files
1) ShowCsv is the first action using this library. It shows the content of a *.csv file as a html-table.

<<Links to read on:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html - about the necessity of backward compatibility
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html - the chicken and egg problem
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//to be continued...//
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