From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-04-17T09:46:23+09:00
Subject: Re: BlueCloth on Instiki (was Re: [ANN] BlueCloth 0.0.2 (beta))

On Saturday, April 17, 2004, 8:05:19 AM, David wrote:

>> Thanks to all of you that have offered your suggestions and code. I
>> have a local installation of Instiki using BlueCloth now, but I'm 
>> still working on a graceful way of allowing the user to choose which
>> they prefer. I hope to do some real work on it this weekend, and 
>> perhaps will be able to submit something to David very soon.

> Sounds awesome. Do have a look at the RDoc patch also discussed on this
> list. Perhaps you could work with that? Or improve upon it. I'd love to
> be able to have both RDoc and BlueCloth support in 0.7.

> Speaking of 0.7, is there any requests from the audience? Besides some
> much needed polish in a few needy spots, what would people like to see
> otherwise?

A list, on each page, of all the pages that link to it.

A list, on each page, of all the pages that are "similar" (for some
value of "similar").  E.g. two pages are similar if they have x%
coincidence of y% of the words on the page, or something.  This
obviously requires some thought and experimentation, but it seems like
a cool thing to do.

Keywords.  Give each page arbitrary keywords to enable "browsing by
keyword".  When you add a keyword to a page, make it selectable from a
drop-down list of all existing keywords to make it easier.  Of course
new ones can be added.

Templates.  Createable and selectable via drop-downs.  Say I want to
write man pages (shyeah, right!), then I might create a template
containing the headings "Name", "Synopsis", "Description", "Features",
etc.

A quick search feature (I doubt this is possible in a web app),
whereby *as you are entering* the search term, you are given a visual
cue as to how many nodes match it so far.  This is a Info Select's
only killer feature.

Integration with a blogger, enabling the blog to link to the
WikiSpace and the WikiSpace to display references from the blog, just
like (I requested) it shows references from other WikiPages.

Some way of creating/editing a node in RTF on your own machine and
uploading it to the Wiki.

There's my dream list!

Cheers,
Gavin