Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Older versions?

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:58:56 -0700 (PDT) 
Adam Shand <la...@sp...> wrote:

>> Aye, I'm not a great fan of SociaWikis, mostly because I don't
>> think they work very well for that purpose (I'm an email guy).
>> For collaborative documentation and development of a
>> KnowledgeNase Wikis work exceptionally well.  What I'm trying to
>> do here is to marry a Wiki, mailing list archives and a K5-ish
>> weblog.  Early screenshot:

...

> if you want another set of eyes and someone to install it and give
> feedback i'd *LOVE* to help with this.

Work permitting I hope to get a beta out this month (currently work
does not look permitting).  My user base is crying for it.  There's
not a whole lot left to do really:

  -- Finish up the auth supports (based of SourceForge's) 
  -- Fix comment/reply threading (currently way too join happy)
  -- Finish implementing picon uploads
  -- Some DB minor normalising (need to norm the handling of
  WikiItems vs Comments/Replies).
  -- Bunch of small corner cases surrounding namespace management
  (side effects of the broken norming to be fixed above)
  -- Summary pages (tag lists, score lists, date lists, view pattern
  lists, graph tree models, etc).
  ... few other small things.

> i assume you're writing it in php?  

Yes.

> are you using a database back end?

PostgresQL.  Its currently very join happy which really needs to be
handled.  It slaughters the machine with decent hit rates (the
target box is spidered regularly and fairly heavily).

>> Oh yeah the comments are individual WikiItems as well (I've got
>> HeirarchialWikiItems ala WikiItem/SubItem/SubItem with individual
>> items able to appear in multiple places in the tree (abstract
>> views), as well as the ability for a Item to embed/nest the
>> contents of another WikiItem inside itself at display time (think
>> quotes)).

> this is almost exactly what i was thinking as well.  the more i
> thought about it the more i decided that it really all the
> important tech was there and it was largely a ui design issue.

<nod>

I don't think I have the UI down.  I know I'm not a HIL guy.  To an
extent I don't think the UI is as important as getting the access
mode and view flexibility in there first, especially given that I'm
basing off a technical (and therefore somewhat forgiving for the sake
of features) audience.

> i'd love to see what you've done.

Soon I hope.  

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J C Lawrence                                       cl...@ka...
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