[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Wiki improvements?

[Tiffany Little]

Afternoon all,

I had wanted to come to the DIG interest group at the conference, but
wasn't able to make it. I was there in spirit!

I'd like to make some improvements to the Evergreen wiki, and so wanted to
run some ideas by the group. We use Dokuwiki here at PINES for our
documentation, and we've added some plugins and structures that have been
really useful for us.

1. Using hierarchical breadcrumbs. This gives (and encourages) more
structure in pages, and in following a path to related information. There's
a lot of great info in the wiki, but there's not a lot of structure there
to link things together.

2. A couple of plugins that have been super useful for us are *edittable* (
https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:edittable) and *move *(
https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:move). The first one allows you to make
easily customizable tables that look like this--
https://pines.georgialibraries.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=acq:defaults#cancel_reasons.
The second allows you to easily rename pages and/or change their namespaces
without breaking links. We use several other plugins that are really
useful, but those are probably the top ones for us.

3. Utilizing sidebar pages. In the same vein as point #1 about adding
structure, we use sidebar pages to structure a whole namespace and give
quick links to any particular page. If you add a sidebar page to a
namespace, it adds a sidebar to the left of any page in that namespace.
Like this: https://pines.georgialibraries.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=acq:home

Does anyone have any thoughts or objections to making these changes or
adding these plugins? And if no one objects, how would we go about doing
that? I have no idea who the actual admin(s) for the wiki are. :)

Thanks all!

Tiffany Little, PINES Services Specialist: Acquisitions

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