# Ikiwiki user roles

Work with this website is separated into some distinct roles.

Besides the **technician** setting up the system, there is the content **author**,
the web graphics and interface **designer** and the normal **reader** of the site.

The author can write content before the shaping and visual enhancing is ready. And
the site can be live readable while evolving both content and style.

 * Text is expressed in simple text - similar to the way emails are traditionally written.
 * Html is expressed in a simple template format - similar to plain html.
 * Graphics and other rich media files are stored as-is.

The system can build multiple websites in parallel - e.g. a stable official site and an
alternate development draft site using different git branch for content and/or styling.

[[!graph height=8 width=8 src="""
{
//	rankdir=LR
//	rotate=90
	center=1

	{rank=same; user author designer}
//	{rank=same; search_query txt css media}
	subgraph cluster_clitools {
		label="Commandline editing"
		style=dashed
		txt
		css
		media
	}
	subgraph cluster_webtools {
		label="Web editing"
		style=dashed
		txt
		search_query
	}
//	{rank=same; txt_stored media_stored css_stored}
	subgraph cluster_storage {
		label="Server storage"
		style=dashed
		search_db
		txt_stored
		css_stored
		media_stored
	}
	{rank=same; webpages webpages_alt webpages_searchresult}

	/* roles */
	user [shape=house, label="Reader"]
	author [shape=house, label="Text author"]
	designer [shape=house, label="Web designer"]

	/* input data types */
	search_query [shape=plaintext, label="Search query"]
	txt [shape=plaintext, label="Markdown text"]
	media [shape=plaintext, label="Graphics file"]
	css [shape=plaintext, label="Sass files"]

	search_db [shape=box, label="Search index"]

	/* stored data types */
	txt_stored [shape=box, label="Version-controlled Markdown texts"]
	media_stored [shape=box, label="Graphics files"]
	css_stored [shape=box, label="Version-controlled Sass files"]

	webpages [label="Static website"]
	webpages_alt [label="Alternate static website", color=grey]
	webpages_searchresult [label="Search results", style=dotted]

	user -> search_query -> search_db -> webpages_searchresult

	author -> txt -> txt_stored -> webpages
	txt_stored -> webpages_alt [color=grey]

	designer -> txt

	designer -> css -> css_stored -> webpages
	css_stored -> webpages_alt [color=grey]

	designer -> media -> media_stored -> webpages
	media_stored -> webpages_alt [color=grey]
}
"""]]

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See also the graphs on Ikiwiki [[design|ikidesign]] and on the [[system|ikisystem]].