YetAnotherWikiName

Last edit July 14, 2014
YAWN - YetAnotherWikiName 

 SubOf: ImplementationDetail on page BreadCrumbs creates
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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: 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
See also
CategoryWikiImplementation, CategoryWikiNavigation