WikiDesign

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To design a series of templates for MW that can be used to exhibit it's potentential as a CMS.

1 Initial design conecpts

• HappyWiki
  • friendly colours with easy "get started" templates and layouts
  • "club house" type design style with focus on personalisation
• Freelance
  • design oriented with tools suitable for designers and artists
  • galleries and portfolios
  • Job tracking, conceptual development, todos
• Community.org
  • Eg Literacy North Shore
  • community focused medium sized organisation
  • tools suited to mailing lists, subscriptions
• Business
  • Eg Azzuro
  • more formal looking with emphasis on a medium to large organisation

Other vague ideas

• Scrapbooking - natural media design
• Tourisim - suitable for lodge/backpackers
• Photographer - flash gallery

2 Key features

I imagine a feature set that is shared between these organisations. Common features would be:

• To dos
• Contacts
• Bulk email
• RSS
• Book export
• Private/public
• DHTML and flash content/media delivery

3 IDs generated by MediaWiki

• content - title and includes bodyContent
  • bodyContent - whole article body text including categories list etc
• p-cactions - views options: Article, discussion, edit, history, watch
• p-personal - user page, my talk, preferences, watchlist etc
• p-navigation - General links: main page, featured content, random article etc
• p-interaction - General links
• p-search - Search box
• p-tb - Toolbox: What links here, printable version, special pages, upload
• p-lang - Other lanaguages available
• footer - Credits and licences, disclaimers, modified date
• p-logo - the logo
• catlinks - the category links at the bottom of the page