[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Wiki improvements?

Wed May 1 10:31:10 EDT 2019

Thank you Galen and Tiffany!

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On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 10:26 AM Galen Charlton <gmc at equinoxinitiative.org>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Since it sounds like there's a consensus, I've made the following changes
> to the wiki:
>
> [1] I've turned on hierarchical breadcrumbs.
> [2] I've installed the edittable plugin
> [3] The move plugin was already installed, but I've created a "manager"
> group that has privileges to use the plugin's bulk change features and
> added Tiffany's account to that group. Tiffany, please let me know if you
> can now see the Admin page with a link to the move pages and namespaces
> tool. Once I have confirmation that it's working, I can add others to that
> group.
> [4] Sidebar pages were already enabled, and I see that Tiffany has already
> started experimenting with setting on up in the acq namespace (see
> https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=acq:sidebar)
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 6:21 PM Lynn Floyd <lfloyd at andersonlibrary.org>
> wrote:
>
>> +1 for adding these improvements.  Navigating the Wiki is a big hassle
>> some times.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lynn Floyd
>>
>> 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) 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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