Re: [ProLinux] "Hey, WIki, you're so fine...." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com> wrote:

> I would like to throw in a question for discussion: What is the

> minimum set of features for something to be a wiki?

Great question!

Well, if the minimal definition of wiki is "quick" then any easily

editable web page might be considered a wiki.

> I added this to my Django flatpage* based site:

> {% if user.is_staff %}

> <a href="/admin/flatpages/flatpage/{{flatpage.id}}/">edit</a>

There you go! Role-Based Access Control!

> But there are no automatic links from camel case, to create a new page

> you have to hit the "new page" link in the Django admin, etc. So is

> it a wiki? Whatever it is, it made my client very happy.

It might be. I created my first blog by editing Wiki pages and naming

them with an appropriate chronological scheme, linking them to a

calendar-view page. Because I used Twiki, was it a wiki or a blog?

Few of these terms are well-defined at all. I bristle when I hear the

evening news anchors say, "Visit our blog at (A|B|C)BC.com for more"

-- that's not a blog, it's a CMS-driven website!

Interesting process. I'm not happy that the default routing logic is

to try all applications, throw a 404, and finally search for a

flatpage as a last resort/rescue. Seems like flat-page retrieval and

rendering could be higher up in the event process to avoid the error

handler. But I'll bet there's an architechtural reason that that's the

best flow.

Ted Roche

Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

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