[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Lots of stuff (was DEFINITION: Ticket Tracking)

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

Hi There,

Sorry, I've been AWOL for awhile.  I'm still not quite back, but 
thought I'd check in.

WikiNames:

I think case insensitivity in page names is a bad idea.  Mostly for the 
reasons that Malcolm Ryan listed.   Capitalization is the punctuation 
of a wiki --- capitals in WikiWords (should) have clear semantics 
attached to them, and one should ignore them by smashing the case.  (I 
also think page names like EquipMent are a bad idea.  That's why 
brackets were introduced...  better yet: add a word to make the page 
name a more descriptive title: EquipmentInventory.)

I agree that HowToEatASandwich should match $WikiNameRegexp.  


Subpages/Subwikis:

I see two separate ideas here:

Subpages really are just syntactic sugar, and merely provide a 
shorthand notation for related pages.  Here's, sort of, how I see this 
would work:
Within page SuperPage, a link starting with a period, [.SubPage], would 
refer to SuperPage.SubPage.  I'm still uncertain as to:
  1. Whether there can be sub-sub-pages.
  2. If there is a shorthand notation which a sub-page can use
     to refer to a sister subpage.


Subwikis are true partitions of the wiki namespace (with separate 
RecentChanges, etc...).  Within the page 'SubWiki/PageName', normal 
links, like [OtherPage], refer to 'SubWiki/OtherPage'.  If you want to 
link to a page that's not in your subwiki, you have to start with a 
slash ([/TopLevelPage], or [/OtherSubWiki/OtherPage]).


Plugins:

I like Joe's IncludePage plugin, and agree that it looks to be a good 
way to provide partial page locking, etc...  If no one beats me to it 
I'll try to get it merged into the CVS code next week sometime.
 

Ticket tracking / ctime in link table:

It's doable.  The "right way" to do it (IMHO) is to add the ability to 
attach arbitrary meta-data to links, not just ctime.  To be brutally 
honest, it's not high on my todo list right now though...

Half-links:

Could easily be kludged with a plugin.

Mostly as an aside, somewhere (UseMod?) I saw a suggestion of using a 
Category: InterWiki prefix as a hack for this.  Category:Example would 
be converted, by the InterWiki linker, to a link to CategoryExample, 
but it won't show up as a backlink...


Templates:

What exactly do y'all mean by "templates"?  I'm guessing you mean the 
ability to choose between various content skeletons when you're editing 
a new page.

If so, then, no there's currently no support for it.  Here's how I 
would envision adding support for them:

Hack lib/editpage.php so that when one edits an non-existant/empty 
page, instead of the regular editpage form, one gets a template-choice 
form.  This would allow one to set the initial contents of the page to 
any one of a set of skeletons.  The skeletons would taken from pages 
matching a particular pattern, like Template*.  Eg. TemplateHomePage 
would be a skeleton for a home page, ...

Once the user selects a template (or none), he gets the regular 
editpage form...

Jeff