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Best of OborWiki

December 12, 2017, at 11:19 AM by Obormot in Content (0 comments)

There hasn’t been a good way for anyone to know what’s going on with OborWiki—what new (or even existing) content is there, what features are being added, etc. This blog is to change that.

I’m kicking off the OborWiki Blog with a tour of some of the (in my opinion) coolest / most interesting / most useful stuff on the wiki¹.

In no particular order:

AppPages

Pages on OborWiki that aren’t just static content, but do things:

Fonts demo: View and compare a wide (and growing) selection of webfonts.
Equation Editor: Render LaTeX formulas into SVG format.
Graph Generator: Create graph visualizations using GraphViz.

Custom OborWiki features

Entirely custom capabilities (i.e. PmWiki recipes) that I’ve created just for OborWiki.

Automatic Logo: How to upload a logo for your wiki (like the Attach:pagelogo.png logo you see at the top-left of this wiki).
GitCommit: If your wiki is under git version control, you can trigger commits via the web (or curl, etc.).
Inter-Wiki Reference: A way for the wikis hosted on the OborWiki Network to behave, in many ways, as if they’re all one giant wiki.

OborWiki documentation, tips, hints

OborWiki’s features are incompletely documented, but there’s more info available than you might realize.

Available wiki recipes: A list of what optional features are available for hosted wikis.
Available wiki skins: Change the look of your wiki.
OborWiki backup strategy: How I ensure that nothing on the OborWiki Network is ever lost.
How to create access toggle buttons (on OborWiki): A convenient way to control per-page read / edit permissions on your wiki.
How to use webfonts on your wiki: Typography is important, and using webfonts is easy on OborWiki.
Using the Vector jumpbox: That search box in the upper-right-hand corner of the page has some surprising features!
Dynamic PmWiki forms with HttpVariables: An example of how to create a web form in a wiki page.

Web design & development

A grab bag of tips, tricks, useful links, demos, examples, etc.

Circular click target demo: Some tricky CSS for creating perfectly circular “button” links (e.g. for dates, page numbers, etc.).
Drop-caps demo: Start your text with beautiful drop caps.
How to ensure that browsers properly cache assets on your site: Configuring cache control properly can massively reduce the load time of your website for repeat visitors.

Archived content

Obscure or hard to find stuff, archived on OborWiki.

Soviet kids’ atlas: A very cool piece of late-Soviet history.
The Art of Controversy: Arthur Schopenhauer’s short but excellent book on debating tactics.