Feature idea: I'd like to be able to tag pages in an ikiwiki blog with a
publication date, and have the option of building a blog that excludes
publication dates in the future. (meta pubdate= ?)
I'm using ikiwiki on git for a "tip of the day" RSS feed, and I'd like to
be able to queue up a bunch of items instead of literally putting in one
tip per day. In the future I think this will come in handy for other
Mainstream Media-oriented requirements such as "embargo dates" and "editor
on vacation".
The problem with implementing a feature like this is that, since ikwiiki
is a wiki compiler, if something causes content to change based on the
date, then the wiki needs to be rebuilt periodically. So you'd need a
cron job or something.
Thinking about this some more, if you're going to have a cron job, you
could just set up a branch containing the future post. The branch could
have a name like 20080911. Then have the cron job git merge the day's
branch, if any, into master each day. And voila, post is completly hidden
until published. You'd want to avoid merge conflicts in your cron job ..
but they'd be unlikely if you limited yourself to just adding new
pages. Alternatively, for larger organisations wishing to deploy more
sweeping changes on a given date, replace cron job with intern.. ;-)
--[[Joey]]
Good approach if you have one day on which a big change goes through, but
often the reason for tagging with a publication date is so that you can
dribble out articles one per day when you're gone for a week. Branches are easy
in git, but it would still be an extra step to switch branches every time
you edit a different day's article.
And just to make it a little harder, some sites might want an internal
copy of the wiki that does build the future pages, just tags them with the publication
date, for previewing.
One more reason to have publication date: if you move a page from your old CMS to ikiwiki
and want to have it show up in the right order in RSS feeds.
I no longer have the original wiki for which I wanted this feature, but I can
see using it on future ones. -- [[DonMarti]]
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