I'm running Wikka at
WickIT∞, a dutch IT-wiki. I live in Belgium and I fluently speak Dutch and English, pretty good French and a bit of German.
My experiences with Wikka
Like a lot of users I first tried
MediaWiki. I found it was too hard to hack the code and to integrate a forum with it. "Nontroppo" told me he used Wikka for
his Opera wiki∞, which seemed very customizable. So, here I am. :)
Possible improvements
This is what I felt when I was customizing wikka for my site. The PHP-code is very nice written, very easy to understand. The only difficulties I ran into where the regular expressions, but that's not my specialty either.
I think the biggest improvement could be the default lay-out, the HTML and the CSS. The code is pretty OK and mostly valid HTML, but I ran into some weird stuff:
- Spaces used for positioning elements.
- Tables for lay-outing.
- The "::" and "[]"-thingies. It seems to me that a lot of wiki's do this, I don't know why, but I think it makes everything look a bit messy. It's better if you use lists (<ul>) for menu's and style them with CSS.
Those are just some examples. :)
I also felt that the wiki-specific stuff is a bit hidden at the bottom of the page, so I put up a HUGE "Edit" button in the right corner of mine. :) Also the search box should be more of an eye-catcher.
100% safe e-mail adresses
I wrote a simple action which converts text to a (non clickable) image. The width of the image gets adjusted to its content and a TrueType-font can be used. You can find the script at
http://www.wickit.be/wiki/VeiligeEmailadressenMetPHP#afbeelding∞. (Dont't mind the Dutch text, if you know PHP, it pretty much explains itself.)
Acronyms
I also wrote an
<acronym>-convertor. I couldn't find a working example on this site that uses a wikipage to add new acronyms. I did the same with my
InterWiki list.
I basicly did something like this in
wikka.php:
$acroPage =
$this->
LoadPage('WikiAcronyms');
$this->
acronyms =
array();
$line =
0;
$pagelines =
explode ("\n",
$acroPage["body"]);
for ($i =
0;
$i <
count ($pagelines);
$i++
) {
if (preg_match ("/[ ~]*-(.*)/",
$pagelines[$i],
$matches)) {
if (!
strstr($matches[1],
'---'))
$temp =
explode(' = ',
str_replace(' - ',
'',
$matches[1]));
if (!
empty($temp[0]))
$this->
acronyms[trim($temp[0])] =
str_replace('""',
'',
$temp[1]);
}
}
This loads all the acronyms from a page which has all the acronyms in a list (with four spaces and a dash before them) and ignores all lines containing three dashes (a forced line-break).
Then I adjusted the Wakka formatter to match ??acronyms?? and to load them from the array.
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