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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]]
[[todo/adjust commit message for rename, remove]]

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

Penultimately, 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
I'd like to make profiling ikiwiki in action very easy for newcomers.
Perhaps even a plugin that created a file /profile or similar on build.

Finally, backlinks (since I have issues with the current backlinks
implementation, see [[bugs/backlinks onhover thing can go weird]]):
[[!inline pages="link(users/Jon)" archive="yes" feeds="no"]]