Robert Schumann

Email: <robert AT SPAMFREE cantab DOT net> or Web: RobertSchumann

My aim is to try and use MoinMoin for all my web-related needs, and perhaps a few non-web-related needs too :-) I do some work on moin wikis with HenrikOmma.

So I'm going to build up a little wishlist of things here that would help me fulfil this wish, and if I

  1. solve them
  2. find that they are already solved and I just haven't looked hard enough
  3. persuade others to solve them

then I will be a very happy camper.

Things I've done

  1. Toppled William J. Gates from his self-appointed position as Ruler of Software, Titan of Zeros and Ones, Overlord of PC Mountain, in an epic struggle lasting seven days and seven nights, ranging from the depths of hell to the pinnacles of mountains and beyond, before a cataclysmic burst of primordial energy smote him into senseless oblivion and left me writing excessively long sentences.

  2. Wrote a page about MoinMoin as a root wiki in a shared hosting environment which I think is useful.

  3. Submitted a bug MoinMoinBugs/TableStyleClassIgnored

  4. One of these I didn't do.

  5. I have deployed MoinMoin on several sites, some of which are not particularly wiki-ish:

  6. Created a (very minor) hack of the modern theme to bring the page title back to the top of the page (see pagetitle.tar.gz).

Wishlist

  1. Hierarchical access control: if I edit page TopLevel and add an access control list, I think by default when I start editing file Toplevel/NextLevel it should insert the same level of access control, to make my life easier. In an ideal world, the ACL of the parent would be automatically inherited by the child, but that would be an excessive strain on the filesystem (or would it?). See also FeatureRequests/SubPageInheritsAcl and HierachicalAccessControlList

  2. CMS-like sidemenu system. This sort of works, but I have some ideas which are slightly more extensive.

  3. All the things described at FeatureRequests/CorporateWiki.

  4. I'm going to try and figure out how to write a macro and, unless someone beats me to it, write a ResponseForm macro which will allow site visitors to submit email to any address the page creator wants. I would envisage it being something like   [[ResponseForm(joe DOT bloggs AT example.com)]]   which would bring up a textarea similar to that in MacroMarket/PageComment2 (in fact, HenrikOmma has suggested it may be better as a sub-function of that macro).

  5. I want blogwiki and gallerywiki. Yes, I know they're out there, I just haven't looked at them.

  6. WikiSynchronisation seems like a good idea, partly because I'd like to have a wiki for a Zambian community who have to access the internet via dial-up with a satellite backbone - the latency and crawling pace is frightening. Hosting in Zambia doesn't help, because that cuts out the 50% of users who have private satellite (which would then mean 2 satellite trips per request).

  7. I cherish a notion of harnessing cheap labour of some friends in Zambia who, with a little Python and HTML/CSS knowledge will be able to provide a service of taking an HTML design spec and producing a finished MoinMoin theme for a fixed charge of say, $20 per pop. Anyone else think that would be a good idea?

Interesting pages

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MoinMoin: RobertSchumann (last edited 2009-01-25 18:06:43 by ThomasWaldmann)