October 2003 - CGI-Wiki-dev

wiki survey
by Justin Kao 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hi, I'm wondering what are the main wiki packages out there are and if people on this list are involved with any of them? (Poking around on the web reveals literally scores of packages--it's hard to tell what's active and what's been abandoned.) Just curious where the wiki action is... :) Justin

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CGI::Wiki::Kwiki enhancements
by Kate L Pugh 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

I'd particularly like Jerakeen's input on this. I have a wiki running on CGI::Wiki::Kwiki, for the local crafts group. I've amended the wiki.cgi script to call a different, local set of modules for certain nodes - see http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/london.crafts/wiki.cgi?node=Yarn%20Databa… (Please don't add junk data; this is a live site.) Integration with the rest of the wiki is provided by using common header/footer templates and a common API between the configuration for CGI::Wiki::Kwiki and the local LondonCrafts::YarnDB distribution. Now, LondonCrafts::YarnDB allows people to enter information about various yarns, and will create a suitably-named node for each new yarn. I would like a way to "flag" yarn nodes so that when one is viewed using the normal CGI::Wiki::Kwiki mechanism, a link to the LondonCrafts::YarnDB information appears at the bottom of the page. The flagging is easy - I just use CGI::Wiki directly and create a node with Category metadata of "Yarn". The link is easy too - I pass a Template Toolkit variable containing a suitable query URL to the template processor. Ah. How do I pass a Template Toolkit variable in to CGI::Wiki::Kwiki and be sure it gets passed on to the template? I do have some ideas of my own, but I'd appreciate input. Kake

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Just what we don't need. YAPW
by Martin＠Cleaver.org 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Yet another Perl Wiki, the Mason people have dropped Kwiki in favour of building their own. http://www.masonhq.com/wiki/null?WhyKwiki Regards, M. -- Martin(a)Cleaver.org Melbourne Business School FT 2004 MBA Exchange Participant to Rotman Cell:+1 416 832 7759 Y!:mrjcleaver ICQ:55418201

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Wiki::Toolkit
by Kate L Pugh 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

I've set up a wiki for us to make a start on brainstorming the documentation for the proposed rewrite as Wiki::Toolkit. It's currently at http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/wiki-toolkit/wiki.cgi (but this will change. Earle has registered the wiki-toolkit.org domain and Martin has offered to host the domain and hence the wiki. Can you two figure out between you what still needs to be done there?) In the meantime, please get stuck in to the docs on the wiki. The default formatter for discussion etc pages is UseMod, and the documentation pages are done in POD. If you want the wiki to be different in some way, or find something broken in it, please let me know. If this isn't what the people who were wanting a wiki for development were actually wanting, then again let me know. I don't plan to start programming yet; I want some consensus (via the docs on the wiki) of what the API should be first. Kake

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[upload@pause.perl.org: Module submission Wiki::Toolkit]
by Kate L Pugh 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

----- Forwarded message from Perl Authors Upload Server <upload(a)pause.perl.org> ----- The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: modid: Wiki::Toolkit DSLIP: cdpOp description: A toolkit for building wikis. userid: KAKE (Kate L Pugh) chapterid: 15 (World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI) communities: cgi-wiki-dev(a)earth.li similar: CGI::Wiki rationale: I'd like to move CGI::Wiki to this namespace. - it should have been called Wiki::Toolkit in the first place, since it doesn't do any actual CGI, and it is after all a wiki toolkit. - a rewrite is planned and a fair bit of the API will change, so this seems to be the right time to shift to a more sensible namespace. - we're going to need somewhere to put whatever we end up renaming CGI::Wiki::Kwiki to, and I can't think of anywhere better than Wiki::* - CGI::* is crowded; let's have somewhere particular to put wiki things. There are ways other than the web to access wikis - see for example Earle Martin's IRC WikiBot. enteredby: KAKE (Kate L Pugh) enteredon: Fri Oct 10 01:41:47 2003 GMT The resulting entry would be: Wiki:: ::Toolkit cdpOp A toolkit for building wikis. KAKE Thanks for registering, -- The PAUSE ----- End forwarded message -----

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metadata
by Justin Kao 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Are there any improvements/changes planned for metadata? Just wondering... Also, is there any way to retrieve metadata without retrieving the whole node? Justin

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