1 [[!meta title="Jon Dowland"]]
2 I'm looking at ikiwiki both for my personal site but also as a
3 team-documentation management system for a small-sized group of UNIX
6 * my edits should appear either as 'Jon' (if I've used
7 [[tips/untrusted_git_push]]); 'jmtd.net', 'jmtd.livejournal.com',
8 'jmtd' if I've forgotten to set my local git config properly,
9 or once upon a time 'alcopop.org/me/openid/' or 'jondowland'.
10 * My [homepage](http://jmtd.net/) is powered by ikiwiki
12 I gave a talk at the [UK UNIX User's Group](http://www.ukuug.org/) annual
13 [Linux conference](http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/) in 2008 about
14 organising system administrator documentation. Roughly a third of this talk
15 was discussing IkiWiki in some technical detail and suggesting it as a good
16 piece of software for this task.
18 * slides at <http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/jon.dowland/unix/docs/>.
20 I am also working on some ikiwiki hacks:
22 * [[todo/allow site-wide meta definitions]]
23 * Improving the means by which you can migrate from mediawiki to
24 IkiWiki. See [[tips/convert mediawiki to ikiwiki]] and the
25 [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] plugin.
27 I am mostly interested in ikiwiki usability issues:
29 * [[bugs/the login page is unclear when multiple methods exist]]
30 * [[bugs/backlinks onhover thing can go weird]]
31 * [[todo/CSS classes for links]]
32 * [[todo/adjust commit message for rename, remove]]
34 The following I have been looking at, but are on the back-burner:
36 * an alternative approach to [[plugins/comments]] (see
37 [[todo/more flexible inline postform]] for one piece of the puzzle;
38 <http://dev.jmtd.net/comments/> for some investigation into making the post
39 form more integrated); possibly also [[todo/pagespec to disable ikiwiki directives]]
40 * a system for [[forum/managing_todo_lists]] (see also
41 [[todo/interactive todo lists]] and <http://dev.jmtd.net/outliner/> for the
43 * a `tag2` plugin, which does the same thing as [[plugins/tag]], but
44 does not sit on top of [[ikiwiki/wikilink]]s, so does not result in
45 bugs such as [[bugs/tagged() matching wikilinks]]. Code for this lives
46 in my github `tag2` branch: <http://github.com/jmtd/ikiwiki>
48 Penultimately, the following are merely half-formed thoughts:
50 * adding and removing tags to pages via the edit form by ticking and
51 unticking checkboxes next to a tag name (rather than entering the
52 directive into the text of the page directly)
53 * perhaps the same for meta
55 Finally, backlinks (since I have issues with the current backlinks
56 implementation, see [[bugs/backlinks onhover thing can go weird]]):
58 [[!map pages="link(users/Jon)"]]