MoinMoin: MoinMoinIdeas/GarthKidd

Garth's Wishlist

I'm sure these should be put elsewhere, sorted, etc. I'm equally sure that if anyone is really bothered by where I've put them they can refactor them.

I'm currently trying to figure out whether I can adapt MoinMoin so that I can produce a consolidated Wiki and blog site so that Wiki pages and blog entries can point to each other really easily. If the potential seems to be there, I'm sure I'll get around to hacking these guys in eventually.

--GarthKidd

• The direction MoinMoin ==> blog is easily handled by the InterWiki mechanism. -- jh

  • True, but I want to be able to use Wiki style formatting (particularly the references) in the blog entries, too. It could be as simple as: numbered files are blog entries, named files are Wiki pages.

    I'll rabbit on more in BlogBlog. -- gtk

Suppress Gratuitous WikiNames

In a page which MoinMoin mentions another MoinMoin several times, it's a bit irritating MoinMoin to have every single MoinMoin of them highlighted as a MoinMoin link. I'd like to render only the first in the page or, if there are multiple headings in the document, the first time under a particular heading.

• I don't get you here, too much "MoinMoin"s. Do you mean wiki links? -- jh

  • Let's just say that it would have been nice to see MoinMoin underlined and blue only once in that paragraph.

    For another example, check how often MoinMoin gets repeated in GarthKidd. In ZWiki, at least users can prepend the WikiName with a bang to suppress the escaping (though things get very messy at the beginning of a line, where ! is overloaded to suppress escaping the whole line), but "banging it out" has to be done manually. I'd prefer something automatic.

• What would you recommend as the scope for this automatic 'href' supression? The enclosing paragraph? 'til the next header or hrule? Surely not the whole rest of the page?

Hotkeys

Minor format tweak for the user interface: the accesskey attribute on an INPUT is a major timesaver, letting people save changes without having to reach for their mouse. It's only MSIE, but that's a major proportion of the userbase.

• Give a concrete HTML code sample (e.g. for the editor page's "Save" button). -- jh
  • input type="submit" value="save changes" accesskey="s", I think. I'll look it up and get back to you.

    Just tested on Win2K with IE 6.0, and the above syntax works -IanEpperson