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You are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. If you have a suggestion, post it here! Eventually, it may be worth starting a new page about, or even doing something about.

Theme poll

To see screenshots of the different themes, visit http://inkwell.za.net/misc/tikitheme/

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CLAWs suggestions

Orientation

• see OldiesMeeting, Orientation2005

Tiki suggestions

For wiki syntax and help check out these doc.tikiwiki links:

• Using Wiki Pages
• Wiki-Syntax Text
• Wiki-Syntax Links
• Wiki-Syntax Lists (hidden detail lists!)
• Wiki-Syntax Images
• Wiki-Syntax Special Characters
• Structures (organizatotron!!!)

yeah yeah I'll move these to a more suitable page eventually - d@vid Oct 23 2004

Blogs

YetiBe October 22 2004

I don't know if this has been raised before but what I would like is for the 'last modified blogs' to display the date and time of modification in the same way as the 'last changes', i.e. when you hover your curser over them.

d@vid October 23 2004

is it possible to tell when a blog has had comments added? I haven't 'specially noticed

via Wither November 1 2004

more visible comment button/options (see also above - basically we need cleaner blog layout, like livejournal, say - d@vid)

CSS / Layout

PolishProffesional November 1 2004

Chance left hand nav bar to display images instead of that ugly - and + (Look at Tikiwiki homepage)

• this is stylesheet dependent - try using moreneat - d@vid 11h05

Download latest CSS styles and replace (just gota dump them in). The new styles have been updated and look MUCH nicer (especially the tiki.css).

• pending

Remove the bloody footer (or at least make it pretty). It just really ruins the page.

• Done! - d@vid 11h05

Images

d@vid November 1 2004: floating

how do you make them float? eg, the ))Ro-Man(( picture on CLAWmarks32? is aligned to the right, but text appears underneath it rather than on the left

Important

PolishProffesional November 1 2004

Give PolishProffesional admin rights. At least partial so I can fix CSS styles. I swear on my grandfathers home-made Polish vodka not to break everything.

robots.txt

d@vid November 2 2004

I should point out that the tiki is not currently disallowed in http://claws.uct.ac.za/robots.txt - i.e. it is searchable by google

I find this kind of useful but I recall people having issues, previously - how about making the tiki proper searchable, but blogs not? (sigh, there goes any chance at encouraging RealNamesPlease)

Shortcut linking

d@vid October 23 2004

shortcut external links (called "external wiki links") should work like this... [ [[shortcut:target]] ], e.g. wikipedia:Dungeons_&_Dragons?

but, there does not seem to be a way to create alternate text for shortcut links (frex, something like [ [[wikipedia:Dungeons_&_Dragons|D&D]] ] for the above, or [ [blog:20|this guy likes chocolate]] ...

how do you do use shortcuts instead of creating a regular external link of the [ http://blah|alternate text]] variety?

d@vid November 1 2004

...and once we've done that, different external icons for different shortcuts (e.g. mailto: blog: wikipedia:)

Tiki to-do list

• Automate CLAWwords as links
• Minor changes don't appear on Last changes list
• Finalise categories

places for admins to ask questions: http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php & fill in irc channel details here

Old suggestions

d@vid, August 19 2004

redirects are currently a bit ghastly - how easy would it be to not insert *(Redirected from Blah)* after the main heading? I don't reckon we need the text on the page at all (you can see it in the URL)

d@vid, August 18 2004

I suggest that we upgrade the wiki - there're a bunch of options out there, features I think would be useful are:

• built in blogs and comments
• light
• all of the CLAWsite? is run by the wiki (some parts will have to be protected)

I also suggest reorganising the wiki into categories, how useful having parallel wikis will be is debatable, but I see the following divisions being useful:

• members - for personal stuff, e.g. blogs
• games - for games, sign-ups, campaign blogs, discussion of computer games and other gamey things
• spon - for everything else, including Official CLAWs Stuff

so we'd have a blog at [http://claws.uct.ac.za/members/ShadowsBlag], a character summary at [http://claws.uct.ac.za/games/ThirtyThirdPrecinctCharacters], and the AGM announcement at [http://claws.uct.ac.za/spon/AnnualGnarliburrMarathon]

the ClawWiki directory would remain and, after a period of grace (say, 'til the end of 2004), be frozen as an archive

comments?

• Perhaps we can use PMWiki?, which has groups and is highly customisable, for the wiki, and separate blog software for the blogs? I am not a fan of lumping things together unnecessarily. - MyrdemInggala
• yup, the only wiki I know offhand with a built in blog is TikiWiki, which is okay, but massive - also recently been using a TWiki? - http://twiki.org/ - very nice - d@vid
• clarification: if there's a simple usable PlugIn? for whatever wiki software I think we should go with that - only failing that should we look at a separate blog engine - d@vid August 19 2004

MyrdemInggala, 2 June 2003

I suggest that we pick a standardized way of spelling Wiki page titles that are ))ClawWords?". I suggest that we change all existing instances of CLAWwords to ClawWords?(except ((CLAWs?, which doesn't count).

MyrdemInggala, ages ago:

We have a noticeboard. It is small and piddly, but nonetheless an actual noticeboard. What's on it at the moment? We could make cute little pamphlets packed with useful contact details and stick them in a little box on the noticeboard (and then some wankers would probably throw them all away, but we could hire some mercenaries with paint guns to guard the box). Or we could just make a poster with contact details.