3 * Eventually, might want page deletion.
4 * Eventually, might want file upload.
8 * Should support RSS for notification of new and changed pages.
10 This can be a static rss file that is generated when the moo
11 is built. (As long as all changes to all pages is ok.)
13 * Should support mail notification of new and changed pages.
15 Hmm, should be easy to implement this.. it runs as a svn post-coommit hook
16 already, so just look at the userdb, svnlook at what's changed, and send
17 mails to people who have subscribed.
20 1. [[Joey]] mentioned that being able to subscribe to globs as well as
21 explicitly named pages would be desirable.
22 2. I think that since we're using Perl on the backend, being able to
23 let users craft their own arbitrary regexes would be good.
25 Joey points out that this is actually a security hole, because Perl
26 regexes let you embed (arbitrary?) Perl expressions inside them. Yuck!
28 It would also be good to be able to subscribe to all pages except discussion pages or the SandBox: `* !*/discussion !sandobx`, maybe --[[Joey]]
30 3. Of course if you do that, you want to have form processing on the user
31 page that lets them tune it, and probably choose literal or glob by
34 The first cut, I suppose, could use one sendmail process to batch-mail all
35 subscribers for a given page. However, in the long run, I can see users
36 demanding a bit of feature creep:
38 4. Each user should be able to tune whether they see the actual diff parts or
40 5. Each user should be able to set a maximum desired email size.
41 6. We might want to support a user-specified shibboleth string that will be
42 included in the email they receive so they can easily procmail the messages
47 ## pluggable renderers
49 I'm considering a configurable rendering pipeline for each supported
50 filename extension. So for ".mdwn" files, it would send the content through
51 linkify, markdown, and finalize, while for ".wiki" files it might send it
52 through just a wiki formatter and finalize.
54 This would allow not only supporting more types of markup, but changing
55 what style of [[WikiLink]]s are supported, maybe some people want to add
56 [[CamelCase]] for example, or don't like the [[SubPage/LinkingRules]].
58 The finalize step is where the page gets all the pretty junk around the
59 edges, so that clearly needs to be pluggable too.
61 There also needs to be a step before finalize, where stuff like lists of pages
62 that linked back to it could be added to the page. However, doing linkbacks
63 also needs to tie into the main logic, to determine what pages need to be
64 renered, so maybe that won't be a plugin.
68 Being case insensative is handy, but it does make the [[BackLinks]] a bit
69 ugly compared to other links. It should be possible to support pagenames
70 that have uppercase, while still allowing them to be linked to using any
75 Make the html valid. Add css.
79 Need a way to sign name in page that's easier to type than "--\[[Joey]]"
80 and that includes the date.
82 What syntax do other wikis use for this? I'm considering "\[[--]]" (with
83 spaces removed) as it has a nice nmemonic.
85 OTOH, adding additional syntax for this would be counter to one of the
86 design goals for ikiwiki: keeping as much markup as possible out of the
87 wiki and not adding nonstandard markup. And it's not significantly hard to
88 type "--\[[Joey]]", and as to the date, we do have page history.
90 ## recentchanges links to commit diffs
92 Would take a bit more viewcvs integration, let the be a "[diff]" link in
93 recentchanges that goes to the diff for any listed change.
95 ## recentchanges more than 100
97 Possibly add "next 100" link to it, but OTOH, you can just use svn log if
102 * full text (use third-party tools?)
103 * list of all missing pages
104 * list of all pages or some kind of page map
108 Might be nice to support automatically generating an index based on headers in a page, for long pages. The question is, how to turn on such an index?
112 Some wikis will need the abiity to lock a page, or the whole wiki, so that only admins can edit them. Probably using the same globbing as for recentchanges mails to determine what to lock.
114 Probably it's ok if locking is only supported for web commits.
116 ## User settings page
118 A cgi page to allow a user to log out and to edit their prefs, including password, email, and anything we add later (subscriptions, etc).
122 ikiwiki needs a logo. I'm thinking something simple like the word "ikiwiki" with the first "k" backwards; drawn to show that it's "wiki" reflected.