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This is an old revision of RyeBread made by DarTar on 2005-12-07 08:25:00.

 

Hi!

First off, thanks to the team for creating such an excellent wiki. I spent a lot of time sampling different programs and I chose this one because it seemed to be a great all-around tool plus easily extensible... which leads me to my next point. :)

After pushing for months, I finally convinced my office to use a wiki for design and documentation collaboration. After 24 hours of setting it up, 50+ pages were created by various members of the team. Not bad, if I do say so myself. Nevertheless, already I have gotten feedback on some things that they wish could be implemented in order to make their lives easier and to help increase the enthusiasm across the office.

I haven't really looked too deep yet into these issues. I would like to work on these and contribute code but in the meantime, I just want to jot the notes down here and make them public while I am at work doing paid labor. :) I'll formalize them into the SuggestionBox or plugin requests later.

-Rye

System Setup:



Open Issues:


  • Wikiword Override Rule Sets
    The ability for an admin to provide say a simple text file that, whenever Wikka parses a Wikiword, it will check the list to see if it should substitute a different link rather issue the default behavior.
  • Interesting, can you give an example of possible use?
  • Mass Page Import
    The ability to import or mass create/edit pages into the wiki without actually being inside. For example, import pages generated from Doxygen during our nightly build process. (I assume this is probably just a php/mysql script on the wikka database.) Or, if easier, just use a Wikiword Override Rule Set to force certain doc links to point to a different web.
  • Ideas for mass page importing are welcome, although I think what most users would like to see is an import feature, similar to HTML2Wiki
  • Visio Support?
    I haven't played around with FreeMind very deeply, but immediately engineers asked me how they could import Visio diagrams and include links to them in the pages.
  • Forced Template Usage
    The ability to force users that want to create new pages to use a template. Also, once editing a templated page, users shouldn't be able to directly change the templated elements contained within but can use, say, actions, to fill in some content. Example: can't reposition or reformat the page title header but can use an action to specify what should be rendered as the page title header.
  • This would be a highly appreciated feature, and it has already been suggested by many users in the mailing list. I think Wikka would benefit from forcing templates on new page creations in many cases (userpages, documentation pages, development pages etc.).
  • Note Recollection
    If I add a chunk of content to a page, and record a little note about it, store it, and then within my little window of opportunity I reedit to fix a typo, the same note should appear as a default.
  • I don't get this
  • Feature Log
    If the wiki admin adds a plugin, the a description of the system change as well as a timestamp will show up for all users to be informed that some new functionality has been implemented. Something in the style of the RecentChanges page. I could do this manually, but I am trying to imagine if there is something that could be done to make it feel more integrated with the wiki itself.
  • This could go together with an interface allowing admins to enable/disable specific plugins. DennyShimkoski has posted some interesting InstallableActions code in this sense, I'd love to see further development on this.
  • Revision-in-progress
    Similiar to "recently edited social awareness functionality", a little icon that would appear on a page informing the user that someone has opened it up for editing in the past x minutes. (This seems really easy to do.)

Annoyances To-do:

  • The WikiEdit toolbar is not rendering appropriately in the Opera browser.
  • How do I link to a specific category page without having the source page belong to that category?
  • When I edit a page and try to add another bullet to an existing bulleted list and hit enter, the page editing box shifts back up and I lose my cursor position.

Extensions:


Key: Blue indicates extensions deployed, Red indicates extensions I want to use but with different behavior, Green indicates extensions I've created.

  • WikiBreadcrumb
  • Recently edited social awareness functionality

  • AcronymFormatter
    Needs its list definable through a wiki page rather than hard-coded.


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