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| author | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2009-01-15 20:04:31 +0100 |
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| committer | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2009-01-15 20:04:31 +0100 |
| commit | e6992480e2e0cf965650f84aa97e01fe0fa71544 (patch) | |
| tree | b4c1743a8f99d22788e190b46f5cb1c09b9b50bb /doc/todo | |
| parent | 48de7f9c7b387ca9f21294b47efc58e7dd64c6ad (diff) | |
| parent | 63fe022602b622eb80bd38d64ee272b543ce0418 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'upstream/master' into prv/po
Conflicts:
debian/control
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/todo')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/configurable_timezones.mdwn | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn | 22 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/configurable_timezones.mdwn b/doc/todo/configurable_timezones.mdwn index 3ed50503a..f8b1dbbab 100644 --- a/doc/todo/configurable_timezones.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/configurable_timezones.mdwn @@ -3,3 +3,8 @@ It would be nice if the sure could set the timezone of the wiki, and have ikiwik This is nice for shared hosting, and other situation where the user doesn't have control over the server timezone. > [[done]] via the ENV setting in the setup file. --[[Joey]] + + +Example (ikiwiki.setup): + + ENV => { TZ => "Europe/Sofia" } diff --git a/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6632cc747 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +A "pingback" is a system whereby URLs you might reference in a blog post are +contacted by the blog publishing software at publishing time (i.e., once) so +that they might update a list of "pingbacks" to the URL. The originating +URL's blog software might then display a list of pingbacks, or an excerpt of +the text from your blog, perhaps interleaved with comments, etc. + +At a technical level, external URLs are extracted from your blog post by the +blogging software, fetched, inspected for information to determine whether the +remote server is configured to support pingbacks (look for link tags, or HTTP +headers) and the relevant pingback URL sent an XML-RPC packet. + +There are other technologies to achieve the same thing: trackbacks predate +pingbacks but are more vulnerable to spam due to design problems. + +The spec for pingbacks is at <http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback>. + +I would like to somehow use pingbacks in conjunction with ikiwiki. I suppose +this could be achieved using a commit hook and some external software in which +case I will consider this done with an entry in [[tips]]; otherwise a +[[plugins|plugin]] to implement pingbacks would be great. + +-- [[Jon]] (Wed Jan 14 13:48:47 GMT 2009) |