DokuWiki
An Introduction
Agenda
About me
What are typical RegioWiki requirements?
What is DokuWiki and can it fulfill these requirements?
What plugins might be especially useful for RegioWikis?
Your questions answered.
About me
RegioWiki requirements
(I'm just guessing these, correct me if I'm wrong)
Small target group
Even smaller group of people involved as editors
Editors might not be technically versatile
Users might not be comfortable with English speaking software
Low to no funding
DokuWiki
Low Requirements
Wait! No Database?
Ease of Use
Completely Localized
The whole interface is translatable
Comes with translations for more than 40 languages
UTF-8 everywhere and Support for Right-to-Left languages
Optional page name transliteration for Russian, Korean, Japanese, …
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Content Organization
Namespaces allow hierarchical content organization
Group pages (and media files) to the same topic in their own namespace
Examples:
a namespace for each district in your city
namespaces for different topics (eg. governance, culture, sports, sightseeing)
Namespaces can be used with access restriction
Access Controls
Upload images, documents to a central repository
Use media files in any page
Organize in namespaces
Insert with a single click
Image resizing support
Templates aka. Skins
DokuWiki can be styled through templates
Similar to how Wordpress themes work
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WikiPedia look and feel is possible
Plugins
DokuWiki itself is relatively basic
Focuses on the core wiki functionality
Nearly everything beyond can be done through plugins
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Plugins can be dowloaded and installed with built in plugin manager
A few that might be interesting for RegioWikis:
Plugin: Gallery
Display all images uploaded to a namespace as a nice gallery
Creates thumbnails, reads image titles and dates from EXIF
Can use Lightbox JavaScript
Can also load images from a Media RSS feed (eg. from Flickr)
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Plugin: VShare
Adds simple syntax to embed videos from popular video sharing sites
About 30 sites supported, including Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, …
New sites can easily be added through a config file
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Plugin: Google Maps
Plugin: OSM
Plugin: CSV
Plugin: Wrap
RegioWikis using DokuWiki
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