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[[!meta title="Jon Dowland"]]
I'm looking at ikiwiki both for my personal site but also as a
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]]); '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 is powered by ikiwiki

I gave a talk at the UK UNIX User's Group annual
Linux conference 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]]

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); 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

Finally, 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