oops. Meant to copy the list. Sorry.<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tegan Dowling</b> <<a href="mailto:tmdowling@gmail.com">tmdowling@gmail.com
</a>><br>Date: Oct 16, 2007 12:03 PM<br>Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Behavior of Profiles/Profiles<br>To: "Donald Z. Osborn"<br><br></span><div><span class="e" id="q_115a9c5006175cfd_0">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Donald Z. Osborn</b> <<a href="mailto:dzosborn@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dzosborn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><div><div><span class="e" id="q_115a9c5006175cfd_2">
<span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Couple of quick questions re this section/wikigroup that I hadn't been paying much attention to:<br><br>1) Evidently when you put something in the Author box of the edit screen, PmWiki turns that name/character string into a potential page at Profiles/ - is there any page on
PmWiki.org that discusses this in detail?<br><br>1a) Yes I saw PmWiki/AuthorTracking which has some info. BTW, it is deprecated in favor of a page that is a list of changes rather than a discussion/explanation of the features
<br><br>2) I'm considering making better use of this section (making it more of a "wikigroup" by:<br><br>2a) Requiring authors to put a username via <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/EditVariables#EnablePostAuthorRequired" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<code>$EnablePostAuthorRequired</code></a><br><br>2b) Enabling search by author contributions (not clear how to do this: backlinks from Profile/[name] just show the (All)RecentChanges pages<br><br>2c) Possibly using the profiles as more as bio pages, IOW, making
<br><br>Any advice, experience with any of the above?</blockquote></span></div><div><br>There is an Author Contributions recipe that might be helpful.<br><br>I often put a pagelist on both the Profiles/SideBar and the Profiles/HomePage (from which the pagelist on the SideBar is not visible) so that someone coming to the Profiles/HomePage can click through to any profile page, and from there use the SideBar to jump to another one. ALSO using Profiles/GroupFooter, you can create a pagelist-driven wikitrail-like thing so people can step through the list from beginning to end.
<br><br>Also, the Profiles group is a good one for having a group-specific Template page.<br><br>See some of this in action on <a href="http://www.mkeurbanag.org/Profiles/HomePage" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.mkeurbanag.org/Profiles/HomePage
</a><br><br>I hope something here is useful.<br><br>Tegan<br></div></div>