[Moin-user] recent visited pages

[Rick Vanderveer]

Hey Don,

Re: Google Desktop--
Thinking this thru, having Google Desktop index your wiki pages would
actually be a lousy idea.  First of all, moin wiki has searching built-in,
and it works quite well.  For a personal wiki, text searching is quite fast.
Even on our corporate wiki, where we have thousands of pages, and text
searching is still extremely fast (and we're not even running Xapian or any
other indexing engine).

The problem with using Google Desktop on you wiki would be:

   - first, if you typed in a keyword to search your wiki, it will return
   both current and all past history edits.  So, instead returning just a few
   relevent results, you would have a results-return of all the past revisions
   as well. So, with lots of edits and revisions, you would get a lot of noise.
   - secondly, if you tried to open that page, all you'd get is a text file.
   Remember that the wiki is constructing the page from a bunch of different
   files, with the content being just one of them.  It wouldn't open
   automatically within the wiki where it would be nicely formated.  Instead,
   you'd be looking at a text page where the relative links wouldn't work, and
   formatting would be like '''bold''' instead of actually showing the text in
   bold.

So, my advice is use the wiki as it was meant to be used, not fight it with
something like Google Desktop.  :-)

-Rick





On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Don Gray <don at donaldegray.com> wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> > The trail will appear as soon as you've created an account and logged
> > in.
>
>   This was the magic. Thank you. Apparently I did this in the desktop
>  version, but didn't bother with 1.7.2.
>
> >> 2. How do I limit the number of historical pages?
> >
> > You don't. :)
>
>   That makes it simple. I agree with the drive space thoughts. I
>  remember purchasing my first 10 Megabyte hard drive, so worrying
>  about old unused files goes back a long time. ;{)>
>
> > If you have huge amounts of stuff in moin, you can enable xapian based
> > indexed search within moin.
>
>   Not yet, but the InfoSelect data file is over 2 gig, so it could be
>  on the horizon.
>
>  I found some Google Desktop extensions that enable adding
>  non-supported (by Google) file types to be added to the indexing.
>  The moin pages are text files, but don't have a file extension. Is
>  there some way to put a file extension on moin wiki page files?
>
> --
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