Hi Johannes,

Well you asked for it.... None of the following are *necessary* by any
stretch of the imagination, but they are things which I perceive as
improving usability. I have *not* limited them to things which can
easily be accomplished via a web interface:

1) Better options for ordering articles - specifically, it would be
great if a block of articles could be moved at once. Ideally this
would be through some sort of drag operation. (Yes, I know that
operation can be accomplished by editing the collection page directly,
and that's fine for now).
2) Ability to change the order of chapters while maintaining the
chapter contents. (I see this almost like an outline mode where a
chapter may consist of one or more sections, each containing one or
more articles.)
3) Ability to "lock" a collection (or at least articles in the
collection) so it represents a particular snapshot of the wiki
content. This would be useful for places where the wiki is used to
document a product - especially a software product - because it is
likely that functionality will change in subsequent versions, but it
may also be desirable to allow certain articles (for example a known
issues one) to be rendered using the most recent entry.
4) Ability to specify some rendering options from the GUI. The main
one which springs to mind is paper size. If the wiki is exposed
internationally, then it may be desirable for LETTER size to be the
default in America, while A4 (the current default) makes much more
sense for Europe. From my point of view, it would be perfectly
reasonable for any such settings to be stored in the collection
5) A mechanism to specify a book template. (E.g. When first created, a
new book (collection) has a default set of pages such as an initial
article giving details of the wiki from which it was generated, and an
appendix page which shows the versions of the mwlib components used to
create the output.)

Just a few thoughts.... There will probably be more after I've used
mwlib for a while. I'm still in my first week!

Regards,
Richard
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