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kgkitchen replied on November 08, 2008 15:13 to the idea "Add page to multiple folders" in PBwiki:

I think files and pages should be able to reside in multiple folders. Permissions would be OR-ed together.

Also, deleting a folder should not necessarily delete the pages/files contained. An option should be provided to delete contained files/pages or just delete the folder name. If the folder name only is deleted, the pages become unfiled. If the file/page is in multiple folders, an additional dialogue for each multiply listed file/page should say something like "File/Page is in multiple folders. [Delete] this file from all folders. {Delete All] files found in other folders.[Keep All] files found in other folders."

Tag solutions won't work for uploaded files.

kgkitchen replied on November 07, 2008 23:00 to the problem "Can't link to local storage" in PBwiki:

Yep. Very low risk if there's no open ports to the internet, and one could setup up various permissions and password a-la apache for added security - but requres a little above average wiki user. Not sure what the quickest, most secure, most out-of-the-box cheap and dirty web server is. Any recommendations?

kgkitchen shared an idea in PBwiki on November 04, 2008 17:21:

Full-on revision control

Since the infrastructure for revision control is in place. Pbwiki ought to eventually offer full-on revision control. This would have to be carefully implemented to avoid confusing users who only need basic versioning of individual files. Maybe this is best implemented as a plug-in rather than a standard feature. An existing revision control system interface could be adapted to avoid reinventing the wheel. Once the full-boat of revision control is available, then pbwiki would be a candidate for comprehensive document management including software revision control - to replace existing web-based solutions. I think you'd find many users adopting wiki first, then deciding the RCS was good enough for software projects. You'd probably have a hard time prying users away from existing revision control systems so an incremental adoption strategy would be the best market to sell. Wiki gives an easy-in to a whole class of web-based collaborative information management solutions. Plug-ins would also allow price-structuring and avoid burdening the basic users with unwanted and confusing features.

kgkitchen replied on November 04, 2008 17:04 to the problem "A student accidentally deleted an entire page full of information. One, why I didn't receive notification of that change? And, two, is there a way to get it back??" in PBwiki:

It seems that a recycle-bin would solve a lot of problems with unintentional deletion. the admin could be the only one with access to the recycle bin. Individual users could delete files and pages from their permissioned folders but the admin would be able purge the recycle bin or recover inadvertently deleted files, either by the permissioned users or the admin's oops.

kgkitchen replied on September 30, 2008 03:05 to the problem "Can't link to local storage" in PBwiki:

Here's how to do it in firefox. I found it.

Install the local link extension to firefox.
http://locallink.mozdev.org/

Put the link in your file as URL <other> then use the standard naming convention file:///etc

Now instead of left click, right click on the link.
then select Open Link in Local Context and click the way you want to open it (in this page, in new tab or window).</other>

kgkitchen marked one of Clif's replies in PBwiki as useful. Clif replied to the problem "Can't link to local storage".

kgkitchen replied on September 29, 2008 02:36 to the problem "Can't link to local storage" in PBwiki:

Doesn't work if you mean a href= link to file:///

kgkitchen replied on September 27, 2008 12:43 to the problem "latex plugin editing problem" in PBwiki:

Neither of the editors you show save the latex source code. They only give you an image to copy or link-to. So the problem is not relevant for them. The latex plugin saves the source code so you can come back to edit it. I'm assuming it is a problem with the underlying retrieval mechanism for the text saved that translates the ampersand to the offending string.

kgkitchen reported a problem in PBwiki on September 26, 2008 18:56:

latex plugin editing problem

When I edit an array markup into latex plugin it requires the use of the "&" character to separate column entries. It saves and renders okay, but when I go back to edit the equation it puts the string "amp;" in addition to the "&" character in the formula that I have to edit out by hand.

\left[
\begin{array}{rcl}
1, & 2, & 3\\
x, & y, & z\\
f(x), & f(y), & f(z)\\
\end{array}
\right]

so after I save the page, then go back to edit latex plugin content, the formula becomes

\left[
\begin{array}{rcl}
1, &'amp;'2, &'amp;' 3\\
x, &'amp;' y, &'amp;'z\\
f(x), &'amp;' f(y), &'amp;' f(z)\\
\end{array}
\right]

I need to manually take out all the "amp;" strings before saving the markup.

kgkitchen replied on September 24, 2008 21:39 to the problem "Can't link to local storage" in PBwiki:

This is a big problem. It would be great to click into a file on the local server for intranet deployments of pbwiki.

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kgkitchen replied on September 24, 2008 21:16 to the idea "Selective Notifications Desired" in PBwiki:

We had a script to do this for a usemod wiki I hosted years ago. It wasn't very advanced, but it worked pretty well. Change notification was only for pages to which you subscribed. Otherwise, people would go to the recently changed pages tab to see a global view of changes.

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kgkitchen shared an idea in PBwiki on September 10, 2008 17:45:

Two uses for pbwiki

There are two general uses for Wikis.
1. Collaboration - pbwiki 2.0 layout packs quite a bit of utility in the screen Real Estate and you can turn off the right pane to view more page content on one screenful.

2. One or two editors quickly putting FAQs, instructions and notices on the internet or intranet.

For use 2) the admin ought to be able to switch off everything but basic page content and selectively turn on search, sidebar and change notification.

Perhaps there should be a permission level lower than reader that defaults to change notifications off (or whatever the admin set its to) and allows more config of the screen content.

kgkitchen replied on September 08, 2008 17:59 to the idea "Slide Shows a la Wiki" in PBwiki:

Fuller Screen plugin for firefox has a slideshow mode. I can't get it to work quite right but it's under development.

Of course it only works for FF - not general for any browser.

kgkitchen shared an idea in PBwiki on September 08, 2008 15:00:

Slide Shows a la Wiki

It would be cool to have a slide-show tool that would sequence through a list of Wiki pages or external links. Perhaps adding the tag "slideshow" would be a good way. When viewing a slideshow page, you'd get an extra input box for the time between slides and customary player buttons such as [<<] [<] [play/pause][stop] [>] [>>]. Then, when you play a slideshow it sequences through the links on the slideshow page. Pressing [stop] brings you back to the base slideshow page so you can edit it. The keyword delay:xx.x after a link would add an additional delay before going to the next page.

You should be able to sequence between ANY links, including external web pages picture files, etc. Of course some things such as linking to a word document or a web page that requires complex interaction with the user can not be expected to work right. Ordinary web pages or wiki pages would work fine. Linking to another slideshow could only be made to work if the slideshow function is recursive - could be limited to tail-recursive.

kgkitchen shared an idea in PBwiki on September 04, 2008 00:05:

Finished my tutorial FAQ PBWIKI WEB 2.0 FOR DUMMIES

go to

http://pbwiki2basics.pbwiki.com/

Tell me what you think. It's got 95% of pbwiki 2.0 documented in a way I hope newbies can understand.

kgkitchen shared an idea in PBwiki on August 31, 2008 02:52:

New pbwiki 2.0 tutorial

http://pbwiki2basics.pbwiki.com/

I wrote this in a hurry to help some friends who needed to use a pbwiki but didn't have much experience putting content on the web.

kgkitchen replied on August 31, 2008 02:48 to the question "Is there any online help documentation for PB Wiki?" in PBwiki:

I made a tutorial here:

http://pbwiki2basics.pbwiki.com/

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