X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/ed982a6f30c63d264cec62d30dcfb17537be50e2..944666cf8277bca742e36c4e80de18d0b96178d1:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 351122063..5a704252b 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,13 +5,27 @@ Do so here.. Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the [[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages. +---- +# Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? + +I just diskovered ikiwiki quite by chance, I was looking for a console/terminal +menu system and found pdmenu. So pdmenu brought me to here and I've found ikiwik! +It looks as if it's just what I've been wanting for a long time. I wanted something +to create mostly text web pages which, as far as possible, have source which is human +readable or at least in a standard format. ikiwiki does this twice over by using +markdown for the source and producing static HTML from it. + +I'm currently using TWiki and have a fair number of pages in that format, does +anyone have any bright ideas for translating? I can knock up awk scripts fairly +easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). + ---- # OpenID I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*= -> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid --[[Joey]] +> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]] ---- @@ -27,6 +41,19 @@ something, that I think is very valuable. > overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and > I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]] +>> I'm really curious how you'd suggest implementing ACLs on reading a page. +>> It seems to me the only way you could do it is .htaccess DenyAll or something, +>> and then route all page views through ikiwiki.cgi. Am I missing something? +>> --[[Ethan]] + +>>> Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls +>>> there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki, +>>> unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the +>>> httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. [[--Joey]] + +>>>> Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access +>>>> through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]] + ---- Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan @@ -58,4 +85,4 @@ with all news or the one with the latest news only, I don't know yet.) >> That wouldn't use the same style for the RSS and Atom links, and it >> wouldn't embed the feed link into `` so that browsers can automatically ->> find it. \ No newline at end of file +>> find it.