Main idea: work toward making Wiki a repository of personal knowledge and a PIM-type application (todo lists, reminders, calendar, contact list).
Improvements that could be made to Wiki:
- don't take as much space in the upper part of the screen
- provide Yahoo-style navigation
- sub-wikis (wikis on one topic, where search and browsing is limited to this one wiki)
- automatic generation of the directory of all available wikis
- more control of formatting
- some other name?
- pages are made of page fragments (so that it encourages more "the page and comments" style of information publishing
- different types of pages
- public - everyone can see, edit, add page fragments
- private - only creator can see them
- shared - like private but many people own them and can modify them
- public read only - everyone can see, only creator can modify/add page fragments
- public read only but commentable - everyone can see and add page fragments, only creator can edit/change
- extensive stats
- number of all wiki pages
- number of new/modified wiki pages since the last visit
- number of wiki pages created/modified by a person
- average number of modifications for a wiki page
- appearance
- in upper screen yahoo-style navigation bar, search and help links
- status (private/shared etc.), link goes to page with detailed explanation, also up
- also in the upper part last modified and last visited times, number of times visited
- in the bottom Edit page/Create new page
- ability to easily support personal web-logs /users/$user_name/weblog, user sees the page as visitor with some additional links (modify web-log entry, add new entry)
- each page (page fragment) can have sm items associated with it
- different page fragment authoring options
- plain text
- "sanitized" HTML + some extension to more easily link to other pages (those two can be lifted from ACS)
- traditional Wiki
- ability to define custom formats (XML + XSLT)
- ability to "snarf" other Wikis (e.g., to create an editable copy of a read only page)
