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Dokuwiki and blogging
This is my first usage of DokuWiki
- reason to use: due to flat file system, this may be faster than my Mediawiki install with mysql
I'm trying to enable first features I need from my Mediawiki installation:
- Vector template (includes cite, …)
- quiz (à la Wikiversity?)
- nested tags (à la Mediawiki's categories)
- ..
some observations (unsorted)
| status | my opinion at this point of time | |
|---|---|---|
| template |  | I found the vector template + that boosted the motivation more to use DokuWiki since for my regular MediaWiki users it will not bring that much of a change (at least in layout perspective) |
| breadcrumbs | | makes it easier to go back though with the vector template I'm not using the breadcrumbs anymore. I wonder why? |
| backlinks | initially I thought it was a “go to that page” link. Since my start page was not linked somewhere else, I think a new user would not have found her way back without the breadcrumbs → no problem anymore, since vector template does not use backlinks |
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| emails by Dokuwiki |  | (e.g. changes notify): the from field of the emails has a cryptic value |
| import Mediawiki to DokuWiki | I think these steps and plugin:mediasyntax should make it easier to export an existing Mediawiki install into Dokuwiki pages static export of your DokuWiki: this or this one |
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| plugin usage | | (not that the extension install in Mediawiki is difficult, but) it's pretty easy to use plugins in Dokuwiki |
| resources | using 27 plugins + 17 pages and the archived (tar.gz) dokuwiki files use ca. 3.6 MB space: → I guess deleting the languages + doing some cleanup could save more space. In comparison: the Mediawiki 1.16.0 (with 35 extensions + >940 pages) has 58 MB (HD files: 48 MB tar.gz + 10 MB mysql .gz) → of course it's not a good comparison: since the Mediawiki has more content, hits, page revisions, … over time accumulated than the fresh Dokuwiki install |
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| nested tags | | works, but is a little effort to create it, see tag:overview |
| url rewrite | I've decided against the rewrite by webserver + preferred the rewrite by dokuwiki since I guess that will keep things same when moving the wiki to another server |
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| view counter on each page | | missing this one, I found so far: tips:viewcounter see also: general view stats |
| error: internal server error | | got today quite a lot, is it the new template? need to try tips from here |
modifications for the vector template
- add additional user boxes to the side bar:
erkan_yilmaz_user_box(disabled, I put all in the above navigation)
- site notice: site_notice
- own logo in: vector/user/logo.png
- tracking code in: vector/user/tracker.php
more in the README
see also
- blogging in MediaWiki (2009 March)
- comparison: MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki
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