[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Wiki improvements?

[Terran McCanna]

+1 from me (I have edit access, but not admin access)


Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 2:13 PM Tiffany Little <tlittle at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> 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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