1 The pages in the basewiki should be fully self-documenting as far as what
2 users need to know to edit pages in the wiki. [[HelpOnFormatting]]
3 documents the basics, but doesn't include every preprocessor directive.
5 Note that there's a disctinction between being self-documenting for users,
6 and being complete documentation for ikiwiki. The basewiki is _not_
7 intended to be the latter, so it lacks the usage page, all the plugin
10 I've made some progress toward making the basewiki self-documenting by moving
11 the docs about using templates, shortcuts, and blogs from the plugin pages,
12 onto the pages in the basewiki.
14 Here are some of the things that are not documented in full in the
17 joey@kodama:~/src/ikiwiki/doc/plugins>grep usage *
18 aggregate.mdwn:## usage
19 graphviz.mdwn:page. Example usage:
20 graphviz.mdwn:amounts of processing time and disk usage.
22 linkmap.mdwn:set of pages in the wiki. Example usage:
23 map.mdwn:This plugin generates a hierarchical page map for the wiki. Example usage:
24 postsparkline.mdwn:# usage
25 sparkline.mdwn:# usage
26 sparkline.mdwn:more detail in [its wiki](http://sparkline.wikispaces.com/usage).
31 The holdup on documenting these in full in the basewiki is that I'm not sure
32 where to put the docs. [[HelpOnFormatting]] should stay as simple as possible
33 and just give examples, not full lists of availavle parameters, etc. And
34 it's bad enough that [[blog]] uses that toplevel namespace, without adding
35 lots more toplevel pages to the basewiki. ([[blog]] really needs to be moved..
36 I have several wikis that override it with their actual blog content).
38 Maybe the thing to do would be to make a meta/ or usage/ or wiki/ or something
39 directory in the basewiki, and put new pages documenting how to use preprocesor
42 Actually, if we look at the basewiki contents:
44 blog.mdwn@ pagespec.mdwn@ subpage@
45 favicon.ico@ preprocessordirective.mdwn@ subpage.mdwn@
46 helponformatting.mdwn@ sandbox.mdwn@ templates/
47 index.mdwn@ shortcuts.mdwn@ templates.mdwn@
48 local.css@ smileys@ wikiicons@
49 markdown.mdwn@ smileys.mdwn@ wikilink.mdwn@
50 openid.mdwn@ style.css@
52 Most of this is meta stuff. Only index.mdwn, local.css, favicon.ico,
53 smileys, wikiicons, shortcuts, and templates are really content/configs that
54 are used as the base of a wiki. The rest is documentation.
56 Moving a lot of these pages could be hard though.. Lots of wikis probably
57 link to them. Maybe the directory they're moved to could be in the search
58 path, like the userdir is, so that simple links keep working.
60 See also: [[Conditional_Underlay_Files]]