Re: [Phpwiki-talk] wikinames, layout, db, and more

[Nicholas R. <nic...@sy...>]

I assume that we are not bound by
> backwards-compatibility?

will we have to re-enter our pages manually? could we make a sript that
migrates our data into the new schema?

> If we need some kind of authentication I would suggest that we
> basically just have two users: anonymous and admin. This allows
> e.g. to have "frozen" pages which only admin people can edit or unfreeze.
> (Might be useful for system documentation or other sensitive stuff.)

I envision 3 states for a page

1. Frozen: only admin can alter
2. Comment-On: main text frozen for anonymous (admin full access), time and
author-stamped comments allowable at the bottom of the page
3. Open: free-form classic wiki editing


References & Footnotes

I think that is is useful to have these. I would like to see Footnotes &
References to be more structured. I think it makes great sense to have each
Reference unique, so they can be re-used, maybe something like
PhpWikii:NSTBCWiki:WelcomeVistors:1.

Maybe if you wanted to use it in another page it could be [r |
WelcomeVistors.1]

The other alternative (the way EditThisPage handles it) is to have site-wide
references, thereby guarneteeing uniqueness


ie
Editing Form
Number/shortcut [1]
URL [http:/some.url.com]
Title [This URL is about PHPWiki] - optional
Author [Swain & Hollosi]  - optional

if a template was used it would be easy to turn-off/on and re-position
footnotes, perhaps making them a seperate page, or allwing them to be
expanded into the page etc?


Images

I am a big fan of images/photos/visual metaphors, so I'd like to see a more
elegant image system

Editing Form
Name/shortcut [Fern]
Source URL [http://some.url.com/images/fern.gif ]
Hyperlink [http://some.url.com/fern.html]
Alt [This photo is a fern] - optional
Author [Swain & Hollosi]  - optional

then maybe everytime an author writes [i | fern] the Fern image is embedded.
Perhaps again it would be good to have site-wide image registration.


It seems that we are getting away from the original classic Wiki, but I
noticed TheTcler Wiki has a lot of great enchancements. I am using PhpWiki
for a Uni project and so will be doing a lot of work along these lines
anyway and it would be great if they where integrated in the 'official'
PhpWiki, even if they are options to be activated.


I am looking at getting PhpWiki to work with the following;

PhpHoo2
PHPSlash (with PHPLib for support)
TWIG
Listman
Webmin

At first I am going for a SyncreticHack, then after a few iterations I might
get somekind of SourceForge style seemlessness

see http://synarchy.net/usyd/ped/task0.html

cheers

-N