thoughts

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+# ACL
+

 How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed
 to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is
 something, that I think is very valuable. 
 How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed
 to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is
 something, that I think is very valuable. 

+
+> ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages
+> can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That
+> could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an
+> overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and
+> I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]]
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+# thoughts on infoboxes
+
+I was thinking about adding a [[preprocessordirective]] to make it easy to
+add an info box. Something like:
+
+       \[[infobox "text here"]]
+
+But it seems it would be better if multi-line text could be put inside,
+maybe expanding the syntax a bit:
+
+       \[[infobox "
+       text here
+       and here
+       etc.
+       "]]
+
+This would just wrap the text up in a span element that was styled to float
+to the right, with a border, the way info boxes do on some wikis.
+
+However, as I thought about it some more, I realized that this would be
+just as easy to type:
+
+       <span id=infobox>
+       text here
+       </span>
+
+Why invent new syntax, after all? I see no reason to for something this
+simple.
+
+However, maybe in the more complex case, this would be useful. If the
+infobox filled in a kind of template:
+
+       \[[infobox type=person name="Joey Hess" email=joey@kitenet.net url="http://kitenet.net/~joey/" description="
+       Joey is the author of ikiwiki and some other stuff. *Yay*!
+       "]]
+
+That might be a lot more useful. Or here's one to use to describe ikiwiki's
+own plugins:
+
+       \[[infobox type=plugin name="sidebar" author="Tuomo Valkonen" core=no]]
+
+This would expand by filling out the template page, which would be
+infobox/person or infobox/plugin, or whatever, and would have some syntax
+(possibly HTML::Template, if it's secure) for testing for values and
+embedding variables. Of course it would register a dependency on its
+template so changes to the template update all the pages.
+
+(Since it's a preprocessor directive, the big multiline blocks of text can
+mix markdown (or whatever) with html, wikilinks, etc, in a natural way,
+which is nice..)