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+[[toc ]]
+
# Installation/Setup questions
+I ran into a problem when installing from svn. I got "invalid variable
+interpolation" errors for Wrappers.pm. I added the flag '--extract-all' to
+'po/Makefile' and 'po/t' to the xgettext line. Once I did that I was able
+to make and make test just fine. --HarleyPig
+
+> It would be helpful if you could post the actual error message you saw.
+> Also would be nice to know what versions of perl and gettext you have.
+> Perhaps your xgettext is an older version from before it natively
+> supported perl.
+> Adding --extract-all doesn't seem like a good idea, since this causes it
+> to treat every string in the entire wiki as translatable. I don't know
+> what you're talking about regarding 'po/t'. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/www/ikiwiki/po'
+>> Rebuilding the pot file
+>> xgettext ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/aggregate.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/brokenlinks.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/camelcase.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/ddate.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/favicon.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/fortune.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/goodstuff.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/googlecalendar.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/haiku.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/html.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/htmltidy.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/img.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/linkmap.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/map.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/mdwn.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/mirrorlist.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/openid.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/orphans.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/otl.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/pagecount.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/polygen.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/rawhtml.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/shortcut.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/sidebar.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/smiley.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/tag.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/template.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/textile.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/toc.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/toggle.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/typography.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/wikitext.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/Stub.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/git.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/mercurial.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/tla.pm ../IkiWiki/Render.pm ../IkiWiki/Setup.pm ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm ../IkiWiki/UserInfo.pm ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm ../ikiwiki.in ../IkiWiki.pm -o ikiwiki.pot -Lperl --add-comments=translators ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:64: invalid variable interpolation at "$"
+>> make[1]: *** [ikiwiki.pot] Error 1
+>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/www/ikiwiki/po'
+>> make: *** [extra_build] Error 2
+>>
+>> harleypig ikiwiki # xgettext --version
+>>
+>> xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.15
+>>
+>> harleypig ikiwiki # perl -v
+>>
+>> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i686-linux
+>>
+>> Sorry about the po/t report ... it was the test file I used to figure out what was wrong and I forgot to remove it. This is against the subversion repository, version 2338.
+>> The referenced line has a $! variable, which the documentation for gettext indicates is the problem.
+
I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page
compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:-
----
-# OpenID
-
-I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*=
+# asciidoc or txt2tags ?
-> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]]
+Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags?
-----
+> No, but it should be quite easy to write such a plugin. The otl plugin
+> is a good example of writing a formatting plugin that uses an external
+> conversion program, like asciidoc or txt2tags. --[[Joey]]
-# ACL
+----
-How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed
-to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is
-something, that I think is very valuable.
+# LaTeX support?
-> ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages
-> can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That
-> could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an
-> overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and
-> I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]]
+Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX?
+(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.)
->> I'm really curious how you'd suggest implementing ACLs on reading a page.
->> It seems to me the only way you could do it is .htaccess DenyAll or something,
->> and then route all page views through ikiwiki.cgi. Am I missing something?
->> --[[Ethan]]
+> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not
+> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it.
+> --[[Joey]]
->>> Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls
->>> there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki,
->>> unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the
->>> httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. --[[Joey]]
+>> I did some tests with using Markdown and a customized HTML::Latex and html2latex
+>> and it appears it will work for me now. (I hope to use ikiwiki for many
+>> to collaborate on a printed book that will be generated at least once per day in PDF format.)
+>>
+>> --JeremyReed
->>>> Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access
->>>> through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]]
+>>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/). It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]]
----
-Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan
+# Using with CVS?
+
+Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs?
-> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]])
+> No, although the existing svn backend could fairly esily be modified into
+> a CVS backend, by someone who doesn't mind working with CVS. --[[Joey]]
----
-Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just
-$config{url}. That way you won't have to hard-code the URL of the wiki into
-the template. -- Ethan
+# Show differences before saving page?
-> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]]
+It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or "Show Diff") when
+editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled?
+
+> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think.
+> --[[Joey]]
----
-# Canonical feed location?
+# Max submit size?
-Any way to use `inline` but point the feed links to a different feed on the
-same site? I have news in news/*, a news archive in news.mdwn, and the
-first few news items on index.mdwn, but I don't really want two separate
-feeds, one with all news and one with the latest few articles; I'd rather
-point the RSS feed links of both to the same feed. (Which one, the one
-with all news or the one with the latest news only, I don't know yet.)
+Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form?
+-- [[JeremyReed]]
+
+> Not currently. Worried about abuse? --[[Joey]]
-> Not currently. It could be implemented, or you could just turn off the
-> rss feed for the index page, and manually put in a wikilink to the news
-> page and rss feed. --[[Joey]]
+>> I didn't want it abused accidently or with malice. I was thinking that Perl's CGI.pm would handle this, but I don't see that.
+>> I read that textarea max bytes may be 500 lines or 28000 characters or 30000 characters or 64kB. It seems like it
+>> varies and I didn't test myself, because I guess it may depend on different clients and different HTTP servers.
+>> This could be checked using javascript on the client side (before submitting) and by checking size on server side (before saving). --[[JeremyReed]]
->> That wouldn't use the same style for the RSS and Atom links, and it
->> wouldn't embed the feed link into `<head>` so that browsers can automatically
->> find it.
+>>> The absolute limit varies by browser. If there are web servers that
+>>> also limit it, I don't know of them. --[[Joey]]
----
-# asciidoc or txt2tags ?
+# Access Keys
-Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags?
+Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other
+wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an
+accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those
+actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts?
+--[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com)
-> No, but it should be quite easy to write such a plugin. The otl plugin
-> is a good example of writing a formatting plugin that uses an external
-> conversion program, like asciidoc or txt2tags. --[[Joey]]
+> Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at
+> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html into account.
+
+>> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to
+>> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a
+>> a user complaint recently that Alt-e in oddmuse was overriding his access
+>> to the browser menu.
----
-# LaTeX support?
+# Editing the style sheet.
-Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX?
-(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.)
+It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it.
+Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com)
-> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not
-> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it.
-> --[[Joey]]
+> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets file upload support,
+> it'll be possible to upload a style sheet. (If .css is in the allowed
+> extensions list.. no idea how safe that would be, a style sheet is
+> probably a great place to put XSS attacks and evil javascript that would
+> be filtered out of any regular page in ikiwiki). --[[Joey]]
->> I did some tests with using Markdown and a customized HTML::Latex and html2latex
->> and it appears it will work for me now. (I hope to use ikiwiki for many
->> to collaborate on a printed book that will be generated at least once per day in PDF format.)
->>
->> --JeremyReed
+>> I hadn't thought of that at all. It's a common feature and one I've
+>> relied on safely, because the wikis I am maintaining at the moment
+>> are all private and restricted to trusted users. Given that the whole
+>> point of ikiwiki is to be able to access and edit via the shell as
+>> well as the web, I suppose the features doesn't add a lot. By the
+>> way, the w3m mode is brilliant. I haven't tried it yet, but the idea
+>> is great.
----
-# Using with RCS?
+# RecentChanges should show path to wiki sub-pages?
-Any examples of using co(1), ci(1) and other RCS related tools with ikiwiki?
+The RecentChanges only shows the final file name for the recently changes file,
+for example "discussion". It would be more useful to see "index/discussion"
+or the path to the sub-page. I think this is handled by the htmllink() routine.
-> I don't belive that RCS offers enough SCM features to be useable as a
-> fullfledged backend to ikiwiki. For one thing, there's no way to have
-> hook scripts run when changes are ci'd, is there? So you'd have to ci and
-> then manually run ikiwiki. It should be possible to do an RCS backend
-> that supports web commits with ci, and history (parsing the rcs files by
-> hand?). If you're a masochist. :-) --[[Joey]]
-
->> It does have history using rlog(1) which is similar format to "cvs log".
->> I don't think it has any possible hooks. What would happen if I call
->> ikiwiki directly from rcs_commit? (I didn't try yet.) On that note,
->> I don't see any way for ikiwiki to generate a single file, but I guess
->> that doesn't matter as --refresh should be fast enough.
->> I made a Rcs/rcs.pm plugin from Stub. I have been testing it some.
->>
->> --JeremyReed
+> Went ahead and did this, IMHO the display is ok as-is. --[[Joey]]
----
-# Using with CVS?
+# Should not create an existing page
-Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs?
+This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first.
+Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists, should not go into "create" mode, but should do a regular "edit".
-> No, although the existing svn backend could fairly esily be modified into
-> a CVS backend, by someone who doesn't mind working with CVS. --[[Joey]]
+> I belive that currently it does a redirect to the new static web page.
+> At least that's the intent of the code. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Try at your site: `?page=discussion&from=index&do=create`
+>> It brings up an empty textarea to start a new webpage -- even though it already exists here. --reed
+
+>>> Ah, right. Notice that the resulting form allows saving the page as
+>>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this
+>>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect
+>>> thing. --[[Joey]]
----
-# Show differences before saving page?
+# Refreshing RecentChanges page
-It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or "Show Diff") when
-editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled?
+What do you think about refreshing RecentChanges page (via Meta Refresh Tag)?
+It can be useful for users like me which rather prefer watching the last changes
+in WWW browser tab than subscribing to page. --Pawel
-> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think.
+> Depends, if it were done the time period should be made configurable.
+> Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some.
> --[[Joey]]
-----
-
-# Max submit size?
+>> Yes, it should be configurable by ikiwiki admin. I believe he's not
+>> stupid and he will not set too short refresh period to kill his server :)
+>> I propose to add `recentchanges_refresh` variable in ikiwiki setup
+>> to setting refresh period. If it's not defined, then ikiwiki doesn't put
+>> refresh meta tag into `recentchanges.tmpl`. Do you like it? ;) --Pawel
-Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form?
--- [[JeremyReed]]
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+>>> Seems reasonable --[[Joey]]