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Suggestions of ideas for plugins:

list of registered users - tricky because it sorta calls for a way to rebuild the page when a new user is registered. Might be better as a cgi?


At best, this could only show the users who have logged in, not all
permitted by the current auth plugin(s).  HTTP auth would need
web-server-specific code to list all users, and openid can't feasibly do so
at all. --[[JoshTriplett]]


It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or
"Show Diff") when editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled?
Using a plugin?


For PlaceWiki I want to be able to do some custom plugins, including one
that links together subpages about the same place created by different
users. This seems to call for a plugin that applies to every page w/o any
specific marker being used, and pre-or-post-processes the full page
content. It also needs to update pages when related pages are added,
so it needs to register dependencies pre-emptively between pages,
or something. It's possible that this is a special case of backlinks and
is best implemented by making backlinks a plugin somehow. --[[Joey]]


random page (cgi plugin; how to link to it easily?)


How about an event calendar. Events could be sub-pages with an embedded
code to detail recurrance and/or event date/time


rcs plugin ([[JeremyReed]] has one he has been using for over a month with over 850 web commits with 13 users with over ten commits each.)


asciidoc or txt2tags format plugins
Should be quite easy to write, the otl plugin is a good example of a
similar formatter.


Isn't there a conflict between ikiwiki using [[  ]] and asciidoc using the same?
There is a start of an asciidoc plugin at http://www.mail-archive.com/asciidoc-discuss@metaperl.com/msg00120.html
-- KarlMW


manpage plugin: convert "ls(1)" style content into Markdown like [ls(1)](http://example.org/man.cgi?name=ls&sect=1) or into HTML directly.


With a full installation of groff available, man offers HTML output.  Might
take some fiddling to make it fit into the ikiwiki templates, and you might
or might not want to convert pages in the SEE ALSO as
well. --[[JoshTriplett]]


As I couldn't find another place to ask, I'll try here. I would like to install some contributed plugins, but can not find anywhere to downlod them.

Not sure what you mean, the [[plugins/contrib]] page lists contributed plugins, and each of their pages tells where to download the plugin from.. --[[Joey]]


I was thinking about a tex plugin, to handle tex4ht files. I have since discovered that pandoc on the output from tex4ht seems to be good enough. --[[DavidBremner]]


Setting default values for the meta plugin in the setup file, particularly author, license, and copyright, would be useful
There is work in progress at
[[plugins/contrib/default_content_for___42__copyright__42___and___42__license__42__]]
-- [[DavidBremner]]


What about a translator plugin using source-highlight or some alternative to view a collection of source code. I have a collection
of e.g. java for students to look at. I'd like to e.g. update the tags in the java file, then rebuild the wiki.     A first hack, can be found in
my wiki
Among many possible improvements would be generalizing to handle other languages. I have to play some more.
-- [[DavidBremner]]