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@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the
 
 # Installation/Setup questions
 
 
 # Installation/Setup questions
 

-(I've moved HarleyPig's problem to its [[own_page|bugs/xgettext_issue]]
---[[Joey]])
+Ikiwiki creates a .ikiwiki directory in my wikiwc working directory. Should I
+"svn add .ikiwiki" or add it to svn:ignore?
+
+> `.ikiwiki` is used by ikiwiki to store internal state. You can add it to
+> svn:ignore. --[[Joey]]

 
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 # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site?
 
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 # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site?


@@ -36,58 +39,28 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl).
 >
 > We will post the scripts as soon as we have them complete enough to convert our wikis.
 >
 >
 > We will post the scripts as soon as we have them complete enough to convert our wikis.
 >

-> -- Josh Triplett
+> -- [[JoshTriplett]]

 
 >> Thanks for an excellent Xmas present, I will appreciate the additional 
 >> users this will help switch to ikiwiki! --[[Joey]]
 
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 >> Thanks for an excellent Xmas present, I will appreciate the additional 
 >> users this will help switch to ikiwiki! --[[Joey]]
 
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-# asciidoc or txt2tags ?
-
-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]]
-
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-

 # LaTeX support?
 
 # LaTeX support?
 

-Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX?
-(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.)
-
-> 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 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
-
->>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/).  It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]]
+Moved to [[todo/latex]] --[[Joey]]

 
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 # Using with CVS?
 
 
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 # Using with CVS?
 

-Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs?
-
-> 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]]
+Moved to a [[todo_item|todo/CVS_backend]]. --[[JoshTriplett]]

 
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 # Show differences before saving page?
 
 
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 # Show differences before saving 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?
-
-> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think.
-> --[[Joey]]
+Moved to the existing [[todo_item|todo/preview_changes]]. --[[JoshTriplett]]

 
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@@ -96,15 +69,7 @@ editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled?
 Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form?
 -- [[JeremyReed]]
 
 Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form?
 -- [[JeremyReed]]
 

-> Not currently. Worried about abuse? --[[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]]
-
->>> The absolute limit varies by browser. If there are web servers that
->>> also limit it, I don't know of them. --[[Joey]]
+>>> See [[todo/fileupload]] for an idea on limiting page size. --[[Joey]]

 
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@@ -117,7 +82,7 @@ actions.  However, it may not be something everyone appreciates.  Any thoughts?
 --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com)
 
 > Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at
 --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com)
 
 > Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at

-> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html into account.
+> <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 
 
 >> 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 


@@ -131,7 +96,7 @@ actions.  However, it may not be something everyone appreciates.  Any thoughts?
 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 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)
 

-> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets file upload support,
+> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets [[todo/fileupload]] 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
 > 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


@@ -171,3 +136,20 @@ Any tool to view user database?
 
 Any tool to edit the user database?
 
 
 Any tool to edit the user database?
 

+> No, but it's fairly easy to write such tools in perl. For example, to
+> list all users in the user database:
+
+       joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo'         
+       http://joey.kitenet.net/
+       foo
+
+> To list each user's email address:
+
+       joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo'
+       
+       joey@kitenet.net
+
+> Editing is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::store().
+> I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed
+> to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time.
+> --[[Joey]]