To turn DokuWiki into a combined news, wiki, and discussion site, you need to lean on a specific set of extensions that add blogging, commenting, and structural navigation to its core document engine.
Because DokuWiki relies on folders and text files, you can neatly section your site by “namespaces” (folders like :news:, :wiki:, and :forum: or :discussions:).
The essential plugin toolset required to achieve this feature-complete setup includes:
1. For the News Section
- Blog Plugin (with Include Plugin and Pagelist Plugin as dependencies)
- What it does: Turns any DokuWiki namespace into a reverse-chronological news feed. It automatically sorts posts by creation date, generates “Read More” cutoffs, handles pagination, and provides a front-end form to write new news articles directly.
- Archive Plugin (often bundled or paired with the Blog Plugin)
- What it does: Generates sidebar chronological archives (by month/year) so visitors can browse past news issues.
DumplingIsNice's Guide to Creating ppts
- You will have two documents, the script and the ppt.
- Do not underestimate the script, while you may not follow the script, an understanding of the entire presentation forms a stage in your mind.
- Conditions to know the entire presentation from start to finish.
- Even if you forgot or don’t follow the script, you will subconsciously revolve around the script’s contents (if you practiced) during the presentation.
- Lay out the main points.
- Partition your discussion down to significant sections (header 1)
- These will be your main-point slides
- It is generally better to divide content out onto many slides with big fonts than to contain large amount of content in one slide
- Unless you are making a comparison, contrast or it is necessary to view both contents at the same time.
- Punch out your content
- In script first, and then reduce and eliminate details. The reduced version is placed onto the ppt.
- Reading from the slides is not disgraceful, in fact if the presentation is meant for teaching, the students will thank you.
- Images are your best friend
- Take up lots of space
- You can bullshit how you want
- Practice.
- Objective is to familiarise with the content, not to memorise the content.
- Thus, to be adaptive due to presentation.
- When presenting:
- Make Q cards, but don’t use them.
- Makes you feel prepared