[Pmwiki-users] Force WikiWords for PmWiki group

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Tue Mar 2 18:03:58 CST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:59:43AM -0500, J. Perkins wrote:
> I am setting up a wiki for a programming project. We use lots of words 
> like "OpenGL" and "Direct3D", so I just turned off WikiWords entirely to 
> make things easier. When I did this, a lot of the links in the PmWiki 
> group also got turned off -- bad! For now I have fixed it with a group 
> config file, but I thought I'd mention it. It might be worth either 
> converting the PmWiki group to freelinks, or enable WikiWords for that 
> group by default, so that new users don't have to figure it out on their 
> own.

Well, I don't want all (or even most) of the links in the PmWiki group 
to be freelinks, because the pages in the PmWiki group are often new 
users' first exposure to the wiki markup language or the place they
turn to for markup examples.

And I don't want to do per-group customizations in the default configuration
because that confuses admins also ("hey, I turned off WikiWords but 
they're still enabled in the PmWiki group even though I didn't create a
local/PmWiki.php file...what's going on behind the scenes?").  

I'm open to other suggestions, but so far I think the current setup
best follows the principle of least surprise.

Pm



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