In addition to what Gilles wrote, you can look into WikiTrails, a
feature allowing a table-of-contents-like pages and previous-next
navigation links which can be automatically displayed in your page from
a GroupHeader or GroupFooter.
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiTrails
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/GroupHeaders
You should definitely look into the Backlinks feature of PageLists, it
can create automatic cross-page navigation. For example, in your chapter
you mention characters and link to their pages like [[Characters/John]].
Then in the page Characters/John, after the description of the
character, there is an automatic list to all chapters in all books
linking to that page. (Only links to pages where the visitor has
permissions to view will be listed, so a visitor will not see links to
locked groups, but you as a logged in author will see them.)
The core software does not support subgroups, but you can have
individual groups for every book, and order those in sections of your
navigation. (There are two modules about subgroups but their developers
have left the community and the modules are not extensively tested or
maintained).
WikiGroups allow easier linking to pages in the same group, custom
styling/appearance or locking of related group of pages, and repeated
headers/footers for all pages in the group.
About the "infobox" template feature, you can include other pages or
sections formatted as templates containing {$$variables}, and these
variables are defined from the page where the template is included:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/IncludeOtherPages#includevariable
PmWiki allows private and public groups. You can lock a full group
(book) and unlock it after if is published:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Passwords
I would keep the passwords simple: for a wiki with a single or a few
trusted writers, probably the default "shared password" feature will be
enough (and AuthUser will be too much).
PmWiki has many features and modules, and the documentation can appear
overwhelming. But you can start really simple, focus on your content,
and think about infoboxes and backlinks later. But the WikiTrails
feature will be very useful so read about it early. My advice is to keep
the content simple, with few markups and features, even when you become
an experienced editor.
Also, if you need some feature, you can search the core documentation
and Cookbook for a recipe/module, and look at the Talk and Users pages:
a module used by more people and with more discussions tend to be good
because more extensively tested. Or, you can ask the mailing list.
Petko
On 2015-09-19 06:57, Bob Mueller wrote:
Greetings all. I've got some feasibility and strategic questions about
using PmWiki.
I'm looking to use a wiki for a series bible. That's where you keep
all of your information about characters and settings and locations
across a series. I've been using Word docs and Excel spreadsheets, but
that's a kludgy approach, and won't scale well, I think. Wikis are
perfect for the idea, and I think PmWiki will be just what I want.
I'll be the only user and admin for the foreseeable future. I have my
own domain and a good web host.
I have two book series that I want to use this for. Series1 has 2
books done, and a 3d in progress. Series2 has 6-7 books planned.
I want the sections for the unwritten or in-progress books to stay
private until the books are published. Then I'll open them up for
public viewing (but almost certainly not editing) as each book is
published.
So am I talking about multiple groups here? I think I am, based on the
documentation I've read.
If I set up a Series1 group, can I also set up Book1, Book2, and Book3
subgroups? And for MainCharacter, I don't have to replicate his page
across all three subgroups, right?
But is this (all these subgroups) really the best way to handle it? Os
is there something a little bit more elegant?
Lastly (for now), if I want to make my character pages look almost
exactly like
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Ryan_(character) for
example, how difficult is it to set up what Wikipedia calls an infobox
on the right side like that? I wasn't sure that Wikipedia and PmWiki
use the same term for that construct, and I don't think I was finding
what I needed in the docs or the Cookbook.
Thanks much for any help here.
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