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RichardMartinNielsen: What I'm doing with Wikka
I'm experimenting with using WikkaWiki in the InvisibleWiki invisible form and the WikiInAVacuum model to replace a CMS (www.joomla.org Joomla) for an organisation's website being hosted by a commercial provider on a LAMP stack.I've also looked at trying to use MediaWiki but have found it easier to "thin down" the features of WikkaWiki than pruning MediaWiki.
My development environment is MAMP on a Mac mini at home. My production environment is a commercially supplied LAMP stack. Once I've built a functioning system on my home machine I'll be trying to transfer it to the production system, likely by doing a recursive diff down a plain-vanilla install then figuring out which bits need to be patched (and possibly rolling my own .tgz to upload).
My current challenges
- Implementing the invisibility (80% done)
- I've now created actions (tentatively named prettyrecentchanges and prettycategory) which strip out a lot of the Wikiness of these actions so that they can be included within other pages. Each is using a small uncamel function which is just used on specific portions of the text.
- PrettyRecentChanges and PrettyCategory are helping present a largely invisible wiki to the viewing public. (So far it's just me because I'm not quite confident to go live on a production server yet.)
- Transferring a developed-by-me Joomla template into something which will look very similar in WikkaWiki (55%)
- Figuring out a clean files interface. I liked the WikiFile system (particularly in terms of being able to upload material easily which can then be included in other pages) and have only just managed to get it working. (100%)
- CamelCase is a bit of a pain. My organisation is located on MacKay street and has many Scottish members.
- A pointer to the simple instructions of how to clone an entire Wikka Wiki from one server to another would be very welcome.
Strange ideas
I'm pondering trying to write a version of the category action which would use the Wakka-generated best-guess of the title of pages listed and present those instead of the plain CamelCase links. This would hide some of the internals from general users. I've now discovered LinkUsingPageTitle but it appears not to be ready for prime time. Yet. And it's not quite what I wanted, but I may borrow code.I'm going to try putting UncamelAction into play, perhaps just on the category pages.