+1
excellent suggestions Joe
you have obviously spent some time thinking about these things
On 9 oct, 03:22, Joe Barnhart <joe.barnh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We could make the wiki even simpler...
>
> 1. Get rid of "comments" on each page. The wiki IS "comments" it doesn't
> need additional comments!
>
> 2. Get rid of tags. Tags imply we know in advance what the structure of
> the wiki is. We don't. Instead the structure should evolve dynamically
> with wiki pages.
>
> 3. Generate a set of search keys for each page. Filter out the
> punctuation and whitespace, then toss uninteresting words ('a', 'the', etc)
> and save the remaining words as a text field to help with full-text
> searching.
>
> 4. Cache the generated HTML in the database to avoid re-processing the
> RST every time a page hit occurs. Most entries are edited rarely but
> viewed
> often.
>
> 5. Permission levels should have site administrators, site contributors
> (editors), and guests. Admins can edit "immutable" pages, contributors can
> create and edit normal content, and guests can read anything but not edit.
>
> The design goal should look more like MediaWiki and less like a blog, IMHO.
> Less space wasted for header and navigation and more area devoted to
> content.
>
> I've also been playing with ideas for the web2py wiki. See my site
> athttp://www.site51.net/wiki for an unfinished prototype.
>
> Try the editing feature and notice the AJAX call to process RST and preview
> your changes. Just click at the bottom of the edit page to re-render the
> RST at any time.
>
> Create a new page just by entering its WikiName in the URL and then hitting
> "edit". Remember to edit the main page and add your new page to the list.
>
> This wiki sample is unprotected by signon, so it'll probably get defaced
> quickly and I'll have to take it down. But for awhile you can see the
> direction I am suggesting -- albeit in a very unfinished state!
>
> Joe B.
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