Yet Another Wiki Name

YAWN - YetAnotherWikiName


        SubOf: ImplementationDetail on page BreadCrumbs creates

        HomePage > WiKi > ImplementationDetail > BreadCrumbs

The very structured self-sitemapping relation-type wiki, created 2004-03-24.

With the YawnWiki one can build a page hierarchy by simply specifying the parent of a page (with SubOf: ParentPage within the wiki text). This hierarchy can then be embedded anywhere in the wiki to create a sitemap!

Influenced by SigWik and FleaWi
~250 lines of readable code

Features

Self-sitemapping: complete page hierarchy by merely specifying parents via SubOf: ParentPage
- resulting hierarchy output embedable anywhere with tag [&desc] or [&desc:AnothaPage]
- useful for a sitemap that lists all the "roots" of the wiki with their descendants/subpages
BreadCrumbs, i.e. the path from the root/home-/frontpage to the current page
- this path gets displayed at the location where the user put the Sub'Of: ParentPage declaration on the wikipage
BackLink: anywhere embedable with tag [&back]
- embed backlinks of other pages; tag [&back:AnothaPage]
- useful for eg a page listing available categories and their belonging pages
RecentChanges showing diffs
- also syndicated as RSS
Index of all pages, anywhere embedable with tag [&allpages]
TextFormattingRules implemented using MarkDown plus CamelCase
A GotoBar wiki page that renders above the title (to link to HomePage, RecentChanges, and the like)
Uses a template.html (and template.rss)
XHTML 1.0 Strict valid!

The lack of a Sitemap in wikis always frightened me :) What does usability guru JakobNielsen think of wikis? Well, hope you like my ideas on creating a hierarchy (or other relationships between pages)! With the aforementioned features you automatically get what proper usability needs, it shows you:

Where you are (title, BreadCrumbs)
Where you can go (GotoBar, SubPages/descendants, sisters/category, BackLinks, CamelCase)
Where you have been? Well er, BrowserHistory, VisitedLinks - do we really need a trail?

Example


        Let's say, page WikiNames contains the string SubOf: HomePage

        and the YetAnotherWikiName page contains the string SubOf: WikiNames

This will create the following hierarchy wherever the tag [&desc] is put on a page:


        HomePage

        . WikiNames

        . . YetAnotherWikiName

and on the YetAnotherWikiName page, the SubOf: WikiNames gets replaced with the parentchild path:


        HomePage > WikiNames > YetAnotherWikiName