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#1 2011-08-29 23:27:46

Torr
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Registered: 2011-08-29
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Looking for an open book

I've been toying with a personal project for some time now, but one critical piece has always eluded me and has kept my from realizing my goal. I'm hoping you fine folks could point me in the right direction of what wiki would best suit this or if there would be anyone willing to help me construct it. I want a wiki presented as an open book.

Here's what I'm envisioning: The screen is focused on the right side of an open book - the book is an old school style of book, similar to an old bible or dictionary, complete with thumb grooves cut into the pages so that certain reference points can be found quickly. Along the spine of the book, and covering part of the left page, is a bookmark. The bookmark would serve as the index for the primary pages in the wiki, while the thumb grooves would link to supplementary sections. The wiki pages would be presented within the page on the right side of the book. Ideally, each page in the primary category would have a second "margins" page with drastically reduced restrictions on editing - basically the "talk" pages in many wikis.

In my test versions, I've always used Moinmoin and the Explorer theme available on their site. It works for testing the premise, but it isn't suitable for the real project. I've been using my own personal Ubuntu server for my tests, but would want the ability to transfer it to a hosted situation if it actually turned out to be worthwhile.

This project is really important to me and I want to do it right, but my artistic abilities are insufficient to the task and my command of cascading style sheets and the like is horribly limited. It would really mean a lot to me if someone could find the time to grant me some guidance on how it could be accomplished.

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#2 2011-10-27 00:56:13

marclaporte
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2006-06-25
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Re: Looking for an open book

Well, not a direct answer to your question, but something you may find interesting nonetheless:

"Wikipublisher is a Typesetting Engine that re-purposes Web content for print, with 2 mouse-clicks. It provides a Web-based Book Production platform."
http://www.wikipublisher.org/

It is based on PmWiki and is pretty awesome!

Best regards,

M ;-)

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#3 2011-10-27 23:42:55

Torr
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Registered: 2011-08-29
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Re: Looking for an open book

That looks like an awesome utility and one I will need to keep in mind for the future. Unfortunately, if I understand it correctly, it's going the wrong direction for my current needs: I'm trying to make a wiki with the aesthetics of a book, not a book with the content of a wiki.

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#4 2011-11-23 17:18:23

Strathview
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From: Strathpeffer, Scotland
Registered: 2008-05-27
Posts: 19
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Re: Looking for an open book

What you want would certainly be possible on Wikidot (hosted) (www.wikidot.com)which allows for a complete custom CSS design, categories for your supplmentary sections and second margins page etc. And the Wikdiot dataforms cms behind it wold make entering data quck and easy. The functionality wouldn't be difficult, it's getting the artistic bit look right which would be more of a challenge. An interesting project.

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