At 09:56 AM 3/6/00 -0600, Iain Shigeoka wrote:
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>
> In addition, with such a large site, I've found that the self-regulating
> community doesn't always work nicely. Many page edits go
> unseen and we're having a lot of "orphaned page" problems.
> Mostly due to pages authors want to abandon but can't because
> there's no delete.
>
>
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we simply added a delete command.
<wiki onsave self-delete >

the file is removed only if
the author(s) remove all other text
and all signatures first.

an author may only remove their own signature,
so a page with multiple authors
will only really go away if everybody
agrees it should.
otherwise an attempt to delete
a page can be recovered
using any one of the backups
which are made prior to saving.

an author signature IE: <wiki author "bobr" >
is optional, but once inserted, stays with the page
and is used to form the clickable-list
of authors that appears in the margin
when the page is rendered.
( %AUTHORS% in the template makes up
a clickable url list that simply jumps to a separate %WEB%
with a page for each member)

author signatures do not produce
any output at render time, nor does the delete command.
both can remain in the file transparently.
in this way they can be part of the "notxt.txt"
backstop for a %WEB% so that users do not have to remember
to insert them.




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