[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Wiki improvements?

[Blake Henderson]

All,

I third that! The dokuwiki is way hard to navigate. I end up searching 
and sifting through a lot of stuff to find what I am looking for.

-Blake-
Conducting Magic
MOBIUS

On 4/30/2019 2:26 PM, Andrea Buntz Neiman wrote:
> Big +1 from me, especially hierarchical breadcrumbs.  I'm happy to 
> help with general wiki-organizational improvements, as well.
>
> ABN
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> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:06 PM Terran McCanna 
> <tmccanna at georgialibraries.org <mailto:tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>> 
> wrote:
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>     +1 from me (I have edit access, but not admin access)
>
>
>     	
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>     On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 2:13 PM Tiffany Little
>     <tlittle at georgialibraries.org
>     <mailto: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!
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>         Tiffany Little, PINES Services Specialist: Acquisitions
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