[pmwiki-users] First class attachments

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:48:33PM -0500, Martin Fick wrote:
>   All this talk of categories and wikitrails led me to this
> strange tought: how about making attachments (uploads)
> first class wiki pages in that they could be put in wiki
> trails and categories.  
> [...]
>   If you apply that to images, you have got 'Gallery' beat
> right off the back! You could easily make albums from
> trails and categories.  Pictures could be in multiple
> categories.  This system would be much more flexible than
> static photo albums.  Imagine cateogries by person, place,
> event... Albums could obviously then contain regular wiki
> pages also  (and any other doc).
> 
>   Can this already be done in some easy way that I haven't
> figured out?

I think it can be done reasonably easily but we just haven't
thought about it much yet.  Plus, I haven't looked at 'Gallery'
to see how it works or what capabilities it provides -- could
someone summarize its essential features for me, or point me
to a good demo site?

Pm