[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Wiki improvements?

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

Big +1 from me, especially hierarchical breadcrumbs.  I'm happy to help
with general wiki-organizational improvements, as well.

ABN

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:06 PM Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

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