Kwiki Page Templates

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The kwiki local template files determine the structure of kwiki pages as they are displayed, edited or otherwise processed.

News & Chronology

• 2004-10-31 phm simplifies changes the display and KwikiLocalTemplateEditEn templates to make sure people can easily log in and find info on acquiring an editor status

Purpose of phm's changes of 2004-10-31

• take account of the fact that most kwiki pages are now write-protected
• take account of the fact that kwiki is no longer mainly and addenda system
• let new users immediately find out how they can get write access
• let editors switch to editing mode by 2 or less clicks in the upper left corner
• remove addenda-related explanation text: this is still found at the bottom and it the it is now implicit in the title of the addenda pages, which links back to the associated static page.
  • phm previously already shortened this text
  • our system should be minimalistic, as little repetitive text and as large an editing space on the screen as possible

• remove possibility of deleting an entire page in the edit template: this is too easy to do by accident and too easy to abuse. We normally need to maintain a record of changes of a kwiki file.

Details about the File Structure

The files discussed here are found on genba in var/www/cgi-bin/kwikimj04/local/template.

To Do

• incorporate document metadata in _header.html