[pmwiki-users] Kind-of Blog, a blog for PmWiki

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:32:25AM -0500, Ryan R. Varick wrote:
> I think you're exactly right.  KOB, I think, has the potential to be a
> rather good approximation of your standard blog package.  It does not,
> however, leverage the unique charateristics of a wiki.  In fact, it
> runs somehwat counter to the organizational model of a wiki.  Instead
> of articles, referenced by title, in context, the author is forced to
> know some obscure "code" (in this case, the date), to reference an
> existing post.  Storing posts by date imposes an artificial semantic
> barrier.
> 
> Really, I think your first point is *the* major barrier to a true
> wiki-based blogging engine.  With my limited knowledge of PmWiki, I
> don't know of any way to effectively store pages with real titles, and
> sort them by date.  As I see it, the other two points are functions of
> the first.

PmWiki could store the page creation date as an attribute of a page,
and then (:pagelist:) could be used to sort by that.  We could also
create a directive that allows an author to set a page's date for
ordering purposes.

Pm