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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]]


[[sigs]] ?


Support [[RecentChanges]] as a regular page containing a plugin that
updates each time there is a change, and statically builds the recent
changes list. (Would this be too expensive/inflexible? There might be
other ways to do it as a plugin, like making all links to RecentChanges
link to the cgi and have the cgi render it on demand.)
Or using an iframe
to inline the cgi, although firefox seems to render that nastily with
nested scroll bars. :-(


Or just link to the equivalent in the version control system, if available;
gitweb's shortlog or summary view would work nicely as a
RecentChanges. --[[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.)


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]]