[pmwiki-users] recipes & recipes / pmwiki.org structure

[Patrick Ogay]

I made some reflection on the pmwiki.org structure.

There is a lot of development and document activities on pmwiki.org, and 
that's what I like about pmwiki.
I like very much "recipes" like MarkupHints , but IMHO we should  make a 
difference between functional extentions and dokumentation.
For a wiki maintainer it's really getting hard to find what he is 
searching for. For example some markups, also features.

I appreciate  that the "Skins" link is accessible  from  the SideBar 
now, I think it would help, to have more "direct" documentation links on 
the SideBar, too.
Also in the edit window a direkt link to all markups would be necessary 
- Markups like attach: or Attach: (?:-) or include, version... are basic 
markups, my brain can't remember.
The {$version} IHMO  should be displayed in the pmwiki distribution, for 
example in the SideBar.

I often *edit* someting, to check up a markup. There  should be a 
possiblity to allow  "edit" a protected site, without having the 
possibliity to save. ?action=specialbrowse would be a possibility.

For a clearer wiki structure, I propose that cookbook has a SideBar of 
it's own.
In my personal wikis I usually split the SideBar in a the top which  is 
called Main.GlobalSideBar, which is displayed in all groups. and  the 
normal Group.SideBar.
Beside of that I have the possibility to fill the Main.HeaderBar, where 
I can navigate in the groups or place some special buttons like 
AllRecentChanges (there are also possibilities to have user specific 
bars, which I don't use at the moment).
Example: 
http://www.os-services.ch/pm/developers/index.php/Projects/HomePage 
user/pw:  pmwiki  pmwiki

May be it's a possibility to get a clearer pmwiki.org structure.
I know, the major disadvantage of a wiki, is, that it tends to be chaotic:-)

Bye way, is there a [@ @] like comment available? 
Often it would be extremly practical to comment a markup that doesn't 
work yet, or hide a internal remark or dokumentation link.

regards
Patrick Ogay