Comments on: Wiki Add http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2005/06/26/wiki-add/ (bôr'dər-lănd') n. Located on or near a frontier. An indeterminate area or condition. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:27:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ton Zijlstra http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2005/06/26/wiki-add/#comment-971 Ton Zijlstra Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:26:20 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/?p=116#comment-971 Hi Doug thanks for trying out my attempt at a plug in! :) As to wikifying longer blogposts: I have tried it out myself and can reproduce the problem. Not sure why it is not working. Also I now seem to run into problems even with wikifying smaller postings. My first hunch is that it might have something to do with using a newer version of Wikka Wiki, and perhaps changed table structures. Another point might be that the overall length of the SQL statement creating the page in the Wikka database is a problem. Not sure. Your other point, about not updating the wiki-page when the blogposting is updated, is a deliberate thing. Basically by adding the blogposting to the wiki, you create a fork. Now two copies exist, one in the database of the blog, one in the wiki-database. Chances are that if you change your blogposting later on, the wiki page also has gone through changes in the mean time. Simply putting the altered blogposting in the wiki again would overwrite previous changes already made in the wiki. In my personal reasoning I saw the wiki as the place to do the editing, with a backlink to the blog for the original (and a link in the blog to the wiki of course). Having to weigh different changes in the blog and the wiki in order to decide which one to use would be a coding nightmare, and probably of little practical use. Hi Doug

thanks for trying out my attempt at a plug in! :)

As to wikifying longer blogposts:
I have tried it out myself and can reproduce the problem. Not sure why it is not working. Also I now seem to run into problems even with wikifying smaller postings. My first hunch is that it might have something to do with using a newer version of Wikka Wiki, and perhaps changed table structures.
Another point might be that the overall length of the SQL statement creating the page in the Wikka database is a problem. Not sure.

Your other point, about not updating the wiki-page when the blogposting is updated, is a deliberate thing. Basically by adding the blogposting to the wiki, you create a fork. Now two copies exist, one in the database of the blog, one in the wiki-database. Chances are that if you change your blogposting later on, the wiki page also has gone through changes in the mean time. Simply putting the altered blogposting in the wiki again would overwrite previous changes already made in the wiki. In my personal reasoning I saw the wiki as the place to do the editing, with a backlink to the blog for the original (and a link in the blog to the wiki of course). Having to weigh different changes in the blog and the wiki in order to decide which one to use would be a coding nightmare, and probably of little practical use.

]]> By: DarTar http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2005/06/26/wiki-add/#comment-969 DarTar Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:09:37 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/?p=116#comment-969 Hi Doug, thanks for finding this out. The WikiAdd plugin - as you know - is not part of the official Wikka release, but it's user-contributed code. So why don't you contact the author (http://www.zylstra.org/) or - better - try to convince him to discuss his plugin with the Wikka community (either on the website or on IRC) and fix these annoying issues ;) Good luck and keep us posted! Dario Hi Doug,
thanks for finding this out. The WikiAdd plugin - as you know - is not part of the official Wikka release, but it’s user-contributed code. So why don’t you contact the author (http://www.zylstra.org/) or - better - try to convince him to discuss his plugin with the Wikka community (either on the website or on IRC) and fix these annoying issues ;)

Good luck and keep us posted!

Dario

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