On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:56:19 +1000, Lex wrote:
From a design view it would make sense to limit it for every page, but done on a global css level. Using a little number of different templates might would also make sense. BUT: I'd like to avoid individual styles on each page as user's expectations will be some common look and feel on whole wiki.
Hi Frank,
To do it for all pages I think all Enrico has to do is create a conf/userstyle.css (see http://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:css#user_styles) containing body { max-width:40em}
Done so. But it looks weird, 40em is too few I'd say:
https://tiwtr.uvena.de/wiki/playground
I installed the wrap plugin anyway (in the Geany wiki). If you want, play around with it, even at the risk Frank will hate us :). Seriously, we could at least try what's possible and then decide whether we want this or not. In general, I share Frank's opinion of a common layout and style across the wiki however in this particular case I also see the benefit of a custom max-width for the page.
I guess we are just going to have to agree to disagree on how permissive a wiki should be. My feeling is that the point of a wiki is to be open to a variety of contents so it should be more permissive rather than less, especially since as a community we haven't had much experience with what is better.
Contributors are registered, changes can be reverted and the Geany community is mostly trustworthy so why not see what happens rather than lock everything down at the first thing we thought of. Also if contributors can't see what different things look like then how are they to experiment with possible improvements to the style?
I agree. New users now automaticallly get into the user group and so can edit, create and delete pages and upload files. For each change, I get a notification mail currently. Alternatively, everyone can subscribe to the wiki via RSS and so get also notified about changes.
Regards, Enrico