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* tilde-wiki RFC
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Author: [[https://tilde.town/~vilmibm][~vilmibm]]
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Status: in review
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Date submitted: <2017-08-28 Mon>
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** Background
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Many moons ago, I thought it would be interesting to have a user that we all
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shared whose home directory was a git repo. In addition to being able to modify the shared
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user's home directory, it had a public_html that could be filled with pretty standard wiki style content.
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Users took to the html portion of the wiki user and generated a lot of useful
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content. the home directory / shared user aspect, however, was left untouched
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for years.
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Thus, this RFC outlines both a shift to a formalized wiki that retains the
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spirit of the origial idea (git based, shell oriented, low barrier to entry)
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while streamlining and improving it.
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** Glossary
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- /the wiki/: the files in a git repo that constitute the town's wiki content. accessible by command line or web.
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- /~wiki~/: the ~wiki~ command, used locally to work on the wiki and publish changes
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- /compiled/: a purely html version of the wiki content served through a web interface
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- /source/: the raw files of the wiki in various formats (html, markdown, plaintext)
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** Proposal
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- the system path /wiki , a git repository (structure to follow).
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- the url tilde.town/wiki, configured at nginx level to serve system path /wiki/compiled
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- Deleting the wiki user and setting a redirect in nginx from /~wiki to /wiki
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- a ~wiki~ command used for initializing, adding to, and publishing the wiki
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- a convention of symlinking from ~/wiki/compiled to ~/public_html/wiki so people can preview their edits
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** Wiki Layout
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The following is the proposed layout for the wiki with sample files
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#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
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/wiki
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|- .git/
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|- .gitignore
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|- src/
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|-- toc.md
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|-- header.md
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|-- footer.md
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|-- articles/
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|---- index.md
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|---- new_user.md
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|---- ssh.html
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|---- editors/
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|------ vim.md
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|------ ed.txt
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|------ nano.html
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|- compiled/
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|-- index.html
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|-- new_user.html
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|-- ssh.html
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|-- editors/
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|---- vim.html
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|---- ed.html
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|---- nano.html
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#+END_EXAMPLE
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** wiki Command
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The ~wiki~ command has 3 principles:
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1. ~wiki~ should complement, not replace, ~git~
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2. ~wiki~ subcommands take actions that can be easily summarized in a step-by-step way
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3. ~wiki~ should be fully documented both at rest (manual page) and live (-h, usage info)
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*** Subcommands
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**** init
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- Clones /wiki to ~/wiki, erroring if directory exists
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- Configures .git/config accordingly
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- prints next steps
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**** preview
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- commits working tree
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- compiles wiki
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- if it doesn't exist, creates symlink ~/public_html/wiki pointing at ~/wiki/compiled
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- prints link to ~user/wiki/
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**** publish
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- commits working tree
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- attempts to pull from origin
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- if this fails, reports on the failure and says to fall back to ~git~ or ask for help
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- if this succeeds, pushes to origin
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**** get <path>
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- given a valid wiki path, opens it in w3m
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- if no path, suggests creating it with ~$EDITOR~
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**** reset
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- prompts y/N
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- ~git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin~
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** Web Presentation
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A guiding principle of this RFC is that the wiki should be comfortable to
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view locally via w3m or similar. A CSS oriented table of content sidebar is
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thus out of the question. Thus, I propose the following:
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- A standalone page, ~toc.html~, that lists the directory structure / pages of the wiki (i.e., a site map)
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- A header with a site title (/The Tilde Town Wiki/, for example) and basic navigation
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links (/home/, /table of contents/, /how to contribute/, /tilde.town home/)
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- a footer with metadata (/page compile time/, /most recent author/)
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- Source files in ~.txt~ format are turned into HTML naively; ~\n\n~ -> ~</p><p>~.
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Compiled HTML pages are put together naively: ie, it is assumed that the
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content of a given page can be shoved into a ~<body>~ element.
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**** Page titling
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After compiling to HTML but before combining with ~head.md~, if the first
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line of a page's content is an h1 or h2 element its content will be used as
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the ~<title>~ of the page.
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** Open Questions
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I'd appreciate feedback on these questions (in addition to general feedback).
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1. The ~compiled/~ directory is ignored by git, but compiled both locally and remotely.
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Does this make sense? Should it not live in the folder at all?
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2. is ~/wiki/src/articles/~ too deep of a path? is it cumbersome? i like that it is
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explicit and i have a policy of erring on the side of explicitness.
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3. Should the ~wiki~ command be implemented using Python's ~subprocess~ modules to call
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out to ~git~ or use something like ~PyGit2~ or ~GitPython~?
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** Future Improvements
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- A macro system that can handle the following expansions:
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- prefixing a string with ~: expands to a user's page link. e.g. /~vilmibm/
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- prefixing a string with ~wiki: expands to a wiki page link, e.g. /~wiki:editors/ed.html/
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- modify the ~wiki get <path>~ command to act as a local flavor replacement
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of ~man~. This might look like a different compilation "target" distinct
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from compiling HTML for the web.
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