[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Wiki improvements?

[Lynn Floyd]

+1 for adding these improvements.  Navigating the Wiki is a big hassle some times.  

 

Lynn Floyd

 <mailto:Lfloyd at andersonlibrary.org> Lfloyd at andersonlibrary.org

Anderson County Library

Anderson, SC

 

 

From: OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION <open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org> On Behalf Of Tiffany Little
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 2:09 PM
To: open-ils-documentation at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Wiki improvements?

 

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> https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:edittable) and move ( <https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin: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> 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> 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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Lynn Floyd
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