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diff --git a/doc/users/jon.mdwn b/doc/users/jon.mdwn index 551d4764a..eb01821ff 100644 --- a/doc/users/jon.mdwn +++ b/doc/users/jon.mdwn @@ -4,24 +4,57 @@ team-documentation management system for a small-sized group of UNIX sysadmins. * my edits should appear either as 'Jon' (if I've used - [[tips/untrusted_git_push]]) or 'jmtd.net' (or once upon a time - 'alcopop.org/me/openid/' or 'jondowland'). + [[tips/untrusted_git_push]]); 'jmtd.net', 'jmtd.livejournal.com', + 'jmtd' if I've forgotten to set my local git config properly, + or once upon a time 'alcopop.org/me/openid/' or 'jondowland'. * My [homepage](http://jmtd.net/) is powered by ikiwiki I gave a talk at the [UK UNIX User's Group](http://www.ukuug.org/) annual -[Linux conference](http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/) about organising -system administrator documentation. Roughly a third of this talk was -discussing IkiWiki in some technical detail and suggesting it as a good piece -of software for this task. +[Linux conference](http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/) in 2008 about +organising system administrator documentation. Roughly a third of this talk +was discussing IkiWiki in some technical detail and suggesting it as a good +piece of software for this task. * slides at <http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/jon.dowland/unix/docs/>. I am also working on some ikiwiki hacks: +* [[todo/allow site-wide meta definitions]] +* Improving the means by which you can migrate from mediawiki to + IkiWiki. See [[tips/convert mediawiki to ikiwiki]] and the + [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] plugin. + +I am mostly interested in ikiwiki usability issues: + + * [[bugs/the login page is unclear when multiple methods exist]] + * [[bugs/backlinks onhover thing can go weird]] + * [[todo/CSS classes for links]] + * [[todo/adjust commit message for rename, remove]] + +The following I have been looking at, but are on the back-burner: + * an alternative approach to [[plugins/comments]] (see [[todo/more flexible inline postform]] for one piece of the puzzle; <http://dev.jmtd.net/comments/> for some investigation into making the post - form more integrated) + form more integrated); possibly also [[todo/pagespec to disable ikiwiki directives]] * a system for [[forum/managing_todo_lists]] (see also [[todo/interactive todo lists]] and <http://dev.jmtd.net/outliner/> for the current WIP). +* a `tag2` plugin, which does the same thing as [[plugins/tag]], but + does not sit on top of [[ikiwiki/wikilink]]s, so does not result in + bugs such as [[bugs/tagged() matching wikilinks]]. Code for this lives + in my github `tag2` branch: <http://github.com/jmtd/ikiwiki> + +Penultimately, the following are merely half-formed thoughts: + + * adding and removing tags to pages via the edit form by ticking and + unticking checkboxes next to a tag name (rather than entering the + directive into the text of the page directly) + * perhaps the same for meta + * I'd like to make profiling ikiwiki in action very easy for newcomers. + Perhaps even a plugin that created a file /profile or similar on build. + +Finally, backlinks (since I have issues with the current backlinks +implementation, see [[bugs/backlinks onhover thing can go weird]]): + +[[!inline pages="link(users/Jon)" archive="yes" feeds="no"]] |