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Pm Wiki Road Map 2011

The following is intended to prompt discussion on the development of PmWiki. It looks at the following aspects of PmWiki

• PmWiki website
• PmWiki template, styles, and configuration
• PmWiki code base
• PmWiki recipes
• PmWiki features
• Other

These are suggestions to spark a conversation from the PmWiki community.

PmWiki website

Add new group for skins

The coodbook group is now large. It makes sense for a separate group for skins which are a large subcategory of recipes

Add new group for Developer

Add new group for for developer andinternals (merge these categories) There is a significant amount of developer documention in the PmWiki and Coookbook groups. It makes sense to separate this from the "user" oriented groups and combine in its own area.

Encourage use of the website

While the email news groups are a mine of information, there is a lack of transfer of that information to the website. Encouraging the use of the website through more use of questions and other? means pages would be beneficial. The provision of "section edit" and page toc" might be of benefit.

Configuration

Template content

• make all content maintainable from the front end, eg logo, header (top bar), footer (bottom bar), page actions
• move more configuration from config file to wiki, for example
  • ... ?

Code base

There is a tension between keeping the wiki simple (steady as she goes) and adding features (and complexity). Favour an incremental evolution of new features and improvements.

• improve support/API for recipes
• improve support/API for skins

Recipes

Features

• remove case sensitivity
  • for directives
  • for directive parameters
  • for page names
• wysiwyg editor
• increase and improve consistency
  • expressions the same whether in all directives (eg if, pagelist) or as parameters
  • css and style to work the same in all span and block directives
• improve accessibility support
  • font resizing in core
• support skinning for different media out of box
  • pda
  • phones
• search
  • incorporate context snippets with results returned

Other

There is value in PmWiki being widely used, this encourages and supports development. To do this requires the community to support it widely, eg Wiki Matrix, Wikipedia:PmWiki, Wikipedia:Comparison_of_wiki_software

• get PmWiki added to Fantastico