X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4109ef94fd53a03fd8f402e1baed18d27c5c4f42..ffe8c29c3c7ff2c530c9d9eb464a9e733372aab0:/doc/features.mdwn diff --git a/doc/features.mdwn b/doc/features.mdwn index 092da603d..551edf811 100644 --- a/doc/features.mdwn +++ b/doc/features.mdwn @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ provided by ikiwiki on top of regular markdown is the [[WikiLink]] and If you prefer to use some other markup language, ikiwiki allows others to easily be added by [[plugins]]. For example it also supports traditional [[plugins/WikiText]] formatted pages, pages written as pure -[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]]. +[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]] +or [[Textile|plugins/textile]]. ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including plain text, images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied @@ -60,12 +61,16 @@ Ikiwiki can also [[plugins/aggregate]] external blogs, feeding them into the wiki. This can be used to create a Planet type site that aggregates interesting feeds. +You can also mix blogging with podcasting by dropping audio files where +they will be picked up like blog posts. This will work for any files that +you would care to syndicate. + ## Valid html and [[css]] ikiwiki aims to produce -[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer). -ikiwiki generates html using [[templates]], and uses [[css]], so you can -change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like. +[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer). ikiwiki +generates html using [[templates|wikitemplates]], and uses [[css]], so you +can change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like. ## [[Plugins]] @@ -124,8 +129,12 @@ and can be enabled by enabling [[CGI]]. ### User registration -Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to post -pages; online user registration form, etc. +Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to edit +pages. + +User registration can be done using a web form, or ikiwiki can be +configured to accept users authenticated with OpenID, or HTTP basic +authentication, or other methods implemented via plugins. ### Discussion pages @@ -133,14 +142,17 @@ Thanks to subpages, every page can easily and automatically have a /Discussion subpage. By default, these links are included in the [[templates]] for each page. -### Page locking +### Edit controls -Wiki admins can lock pages so that only other admins can edit them. +Wiki admins can [[lock_pages|page_locking]] so that only other admins can +edit them. Or a wiki can be set up to allow anyone to edit Discussion +pages, but only registered users to edit other pages. These are just two +possibilities, since page edit controls can be changed via plugins. ### [[PageHistory]] Well, sorta. Rather than implementing YA history browser, it can link to -[[ViewCVS]] or the like to browse the history of a wiki page. +[[ViewVC]] or the like to browse the history of a wiki page. ### Full text search