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Userpage of Nils Lindenberg
Me, myself & I
I am a student of socail science at the university of Goettingen, Germany (currently on exchange in Bologna, Italy). You can find me also at WackoWiki, Wikipedia and http://www.openformats.org .You can find the things i am working on in the moment at www.niehle.info (many thanks to JsnX for give me a place to test :-)
Links
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html - about the necessity of backward compatibilityhttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html - the chicken and egg problem
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
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
My List of things which could be improved in, or added at Wikka
(the items are listed in descending priority)- I18n, L10n=> WikkaInternationalization, HandlingUTF8
- a better System for Categorys => CategorySystemOverhaul
- A Calendar/organizer => GmBowenCalendar & see below
- E-Mail and => WikkaAndEmail & see below for some thoughts
- Toc (Table of Content) -> already implementet in WackoWiki
- Usermanagement -> UserAdmin
- User-to-User-Messages-System (working on this...see MailBox...the code (so far) is there....feel free to play with it - GmBowen)
- Access to the Config.php through a wikka-interface
- Footnotes (http://www.istitutocolli.org/uniwakka/FootNote)
- OpenOffice import/export
And, naturely, everything which gives Wikka new features oder improves the usability/the code.
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 documentationThe 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:- 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
- StayLoggedIn: 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)
Compatibility
to be addedto be continued...
CategoryUsers
