Oddmuse is clearly influenced by the design of Emacs! 😄 I’ve started to write more and more extensions that can be added to the config file. This keeps the size of the wiki itself down, but it makes “fiddling” with the wiki harder. You have to know Perl and you need a basic idea of how to customize the engine if you want to get anywhere. On the other hand, while many people visit and use a wiki, only one person has to write the config file, so I think this trade-off is entirely Ok. I’ve noted before that easy of installation is of prime importance to me. Well, easy of customization is not. It should be easy to do for a programmer. And by writing lots of extension code, I can test this for myself. (And I think it is true: Extensions *are* easy to write for a programmer!)
Today I implemented Chris Purcell’s “Page Clusters” idea. See MeatBall:PageClusters. That required too many changes to the Oddmuse machinery. ;)