Wiki administration

Wiki principles

• Expand many/most words to their Spaced Out Equivalents.
• Don't capitalize every word in a link or document header.
• Use include

Wiki details

• WikiDocComments^?
• WikiDocSearch^?
• WikiAdminTocs

Wiki function

• Serious issues which need fixing
  • SECTION includes don't work right (CommunityHome and WorkingGroups and CurrentCombinedStatus) (KEI#2100)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/WebStatistics reports incorrectly (KEI#2062)
  • Lock bin/configure
• Additional issues which need fixing
  • Projects/PageListByPerson is broken
  • Projects/WebChanges doesn't seem to show all changes prior to 4.0.1 update (KEI#2039)
  • Main/TWikiPreferences WIKILOGOIMG, WIKIWEBLIST
  • Table of contents unreadable on OSAF's pattern skin
  • Projects/Page(byTypeWhatever)
  • Glossary broken: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Documentation/AllGlossaryEntries
  • "Unknown page/question mark" should be highlighted (per Mimi)
  • May have put RSS links on pages that shouldn't have it, including edit page
  • On rename page, the select/clear all buttons don't work. The JS seems to be in place to do it.
  • Revisit WebStatistics for all webs; ensure periodic rebuilding
  • Revisit mailnotify for all webs (TWiki:Codev.MailerContrib is the new way)
  • Wiki upstream known issues: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev.KnownIssuesOfTWiki04x00x00
• Enhancements
  • Tag plugins: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TagMePlugin
  • MDE quickie facelift (KEI#1845)
  • mod_perl for performance increase
  • Shortened wiki URLs
  • Make new "osaf" skin derived from pattern/css skin
  • Twisty javascript expand collapse for Pattern skin
  • PDF output
  • Brainstorm comment blocks: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/HowToBrainstormFineGrain
  • UserTemplates including freemind viewer plugin
    • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/UserTemplates
    • http://twikiplugins.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/TWiki/UserTemplates#freemind
    • http://wiki.conceptmapping.org/Sandbox/FreeMindTest
    • EditActionItems: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Sandbox/EditActionItems
  • Sectional editing: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/SectionalEditPlugin
  • configure tick_twiki.pl to clean up sessions and leases; set ExpireAfter^? to -1 and clean up all sessions manaully. Move session dir out from /tmp.
  • Tune the wiki new user template
  • Maybe add a raw link to personal skin
  • Extract all emails into password db then remove emails from homepages
  • Implement caching layering (variable caching and maybe whole-HTML caching via reverse proxy)
  • Docbook (XML+XSL) integration
  • Integrated autogenerated documentation (specs, docbook, epy)
• Recently fixed
  • Search page works again
  • Upload page and upload button was broken for about 2 days
  • Grouped the edit page buttons slightly differently
  • Registration of new users requires email confirmation
  • Update to TWiki 4.0.1 upstream codebase
  • IRC transcript link
  • Time/datestamps now rendered in Pacific time, not GMT
  • Wiki HTML charset set to UTF-8
  • Rename/delete function doesn't present list of backlinks for renaming (KEI#2060)

• TWiki examples:
  • Pattern skin: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebHome
  • http://www.visiblearea.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Patterns/Home_
  • http://csci.mrs.umn.edu/twiki/view/Dungeon/UmmWikiSkin
  • Nat skin: http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Main/WebHome
  • http://www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bin/view/TWiki/MoreOptions
• Preferences:
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiPreferences (global, should be considered read-only)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/TWikiPreferences (global local customizations, OSAF local icons, nicknames, standard table attributes, plugin settings, OSAF boxes tables style, page header styles, OSAF left nav (OSAFBOOKMARKS), stylesheet CSS location, )
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/WebPreferences (per-web, overrides TWikiPreferences)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WebPreferences (per-web, overrides TWikiPreferences)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiVariables (instructions and state of pretty much all variables; good location for the search docs)
• Templates/skins:
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiTemplates (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiTemplates)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiSkinBrowser
  • actions:
    • twiki, view, edit, attach, preview, print, search
    • addform
    • attach, attachagain, attachnew, attachtables
    • backlinks, backlinksallwebs, backlinksweb
    • booktree
    • rename, rdiff, oops
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/WebTopicEditTemplate (template for new page)
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/KoalaSkin (large-site design, keyboard shortcuts, etc)
  • TWiki CSS:
    • CSS info: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiCss
    • CSS resources: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiCss
    • CSS pattern skin info: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/PatternSkinCss
• Forms:
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/PageInfo (Projects-web-specific form definition)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/PageType (related)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/PageType
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/CategoryCategory
• Search:
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/RegularExpression
• Admin:
  • Overview of OSAF Web permissions: SitePermissions
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/ManagingWebs (Creating new webs)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/WebStatistics
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/TWikiUsers (Users list, broken)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiDocGraphics (icons)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/TWikiPreferences#OsafVariables (OSAF icons):
    • Capplets
    • Design doc status icons
    • Progress bars
    • Large icons
    • Chandler small, Cosmo+Scooby large icons
    • Page status
    • Comments welcome
    • Nicknames
    • Design doc "whens", shorthand
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/WebTopicList (fast, titles only)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/WebIndex (slow, more complete index)
  • http://www.annocpan.org/~WBNIV/WWW-Mechanize-TWiki-0.10/lib/WWW/Mechanize/TWiki.pm (REST-based automation of document interaction)
• Docs:
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiTemplates (default templates, template-only/first-time content, template resolution algorithm)
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiSkins
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/AdminDocumentationCategory
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/DeveloperDocumentationCategory
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/UserDocumentationCategory
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiFuncDotPm (API documentation)
• Changes:
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/WebChanges
• Content:
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/FormattedSearch (important to lay out custom searches)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingFAQ (9 questions)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules (full-page syntax help, with lists of plugins)
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/IncludeTopicsAndWebPages (including other docs and urls)
• Mail integration
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MailToTWikiAddOn
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MailInContrib
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MailerContrib
• Plugins:
  • http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiPlugins (plugin development)
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiDrawPlugin
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/SlideShowPlugin
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/ChartPlugin
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/BlackListPlugin
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/BugzillaLinkPlugin
• Statistics:
  • TWikiSiteTools#WebStatistics