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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', 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.

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).