Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New jeffshacks snapshot.

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> To me, that seems like a lot of work (and complication) for not much
> gain. (And also fairly non-wiki-like.)  Note that, at this point, the
> LikePages plugin can be used to generate a list of Categories or
> Topics on the fly.

there are some good reasons and some fairly trivial reasons i want this:

 * it gives an easy way to track un-categorized pages (because by default
   they go into CategoryUncategorized or something).
 * it stops false positives if someone mentions a categories page without
   that page actually belonging to a category.
 * it stops people making typos when typing the category names.
 * it means that i can have a category keyword and put it elsewhere in the
   page where it's more visible/prettier etc.

> (And, I'm working on the ability to embed plugins within the
> templates, as well --- this would allow one to do fancy things like
> put a category index in a side-bar.)

oooh!  cool!  now how about recent changes as a side bar as well, and
recent changes and category pages as rdf for syndication to remote
weblogs and wiki sites?

i think the easist way to do this (and i've mumbled about this before so
excuse me if you're sick of it already :-) is to make a generic output
mode for any wiki page which will output as rdf/rss and then a php rss/rdf
parser to build side boxes for whatever from that.

> This is an interesting idea.  It would be easy enough to hack this
> into the transform code --- one just needs to settle on a good markup
> syntax for comments.  What kinds of things would you use this for?

i forget the exact thing i wanted it for, but mostly for notes to people
who are editing the page.  commets could also be an easy way to embed meta
data.

#category: documentation:hardware
#redirect: http://www.spack.org/
#redirect: WirelessCommunitites

and then comments would just be:

# blah blah
# please leave the below lines intact.

adam.