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Joey Hess 2009-09-30 15:17:03 -04:00
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@ -51,3 +51,36 @@ i'm new to ikiwiki, apologies if this is dealt with elsewhere. -brush
> This plugin is pretty ambitious, and is unfinished, so I'd recommend
> playing with a normal IkiWiki installation for a bit, then trying
> out this plugin when you've mastered the basics of IkiWiki. --[[smcv]]
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You had wanted my feedback on the design of this. I have not looked at the
code or tried it yet, but here goes. --[[Joey]]
* Needing to create the albumimage "viewer" pages for each photo
seems like it will become a pain. Everyone will need to come up
with their own automation for it, and then there's the question
of how to automate it when uploading attachments.
* With each viewer page having next/prev links, I can see how you
were having the scalability issues with ikiwiki's data structures
earlier!
* And doesn't each viewer page really depend on every other page in the
same albumsection? If a new page is added, the next/prev links
may need to be updated, for example. If so, there will be much
unnecessary rebuilding.
* One thing I do like about having individual pages per image is
that they can each have their own comments, etc.
* Seems possibly backwards that the albumimage controls what album
an image appears in. Two use cases -- 1: I may want to make a locked
album, but then anyone who can write to any other page on the wiki can
add an image to it. 2: I may want an image to appear in more than one
album. Think tags. So it seems it would be better to have the album
directive control what pages it includes (a la inline).
* Putting a few of the above thoughts together, my ideal album system
seems to be one where I can just drop the images into a directory and
have them appear in the album index, as well as each generate their own wiki
page. Plus some way I can, later, edit metadata for captions,
etc. (Real pity we can't just put arbitrary metadata into the images
themselves.) This is almost pointing toward making the images first-class
wiki page sources. Hey, it worked for po! :) But the metadata and editing
problems probably don't really allow that.