[pmwiki-users] Kind-of Blog, a blog for PmWiki

[Han Baas]

"Ryan R. Varick" <rvarick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wish I'd known about PmCalendar when I started this.  KOB is a
> descendent of Wiki Calendar, which I think itself descends from
> another recipe.  So I'm three links removed from PmWiki.

IMHO the calendar is a very poor way of archiving. What is needed  
here are three things:

1. a chronological list of posts (chronological on the date-posted,  
NOT on date-last-edited). If the post/page-titles are descriptive  
(the date in whatever format, will not do as a title), the relevant  
post can easily been found. Look at  http://daringfireball.net/ 
archives/ for a good example of this type of archive.

2. the use of categories (and PmWiki has a good implementation of  
categories). The listing of post per category can either be  
alphabetical or (preferably) chronological. It would be nice if in  
the category listing the number of posts per category could be  
displayed.

3. a search function (again: PmWiki has a good one)

So what really is needed here, to transform PmWiki into a good  
blogging tool, is the ability to list pages chronological (the  
original posting date) And a good commenting system, but that is an  
other story.

My 2c,
Han