# Rubygarden wiki

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygarden-wiki/78189>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 3, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygarden-wiki/78189 "2006-12-03T19:47:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_DeMello)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygarden-wiki/78189/1 "2006-12-03T19:47:15Z")

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I was a bit hesitant to post this, since it is mostly complaining, but  
I really think the RubyGarden wiki is long overdue for a facelift. The  
major problems I have (in no particular order):

1. Ugly background colour. This is not as minor an issue as it may  
seem - I feel actively reluctant to spend too long browsing the wiki.  
Yes, I can click my “zap colour” bookmarklet every time I browse to a  
page (which is what I mostly end up doing), or even write a  
greasemonkey script to fix it once and for all, but I think the wiki  
should look good out of the box. Incidentally, I did an informal  
search, and every other language wiki I could find has a white  
background.

1a. Alternate stylesheets. Would fix problem 1, for a start, and  
provide lots of other nice features, settable on a per-user basis.

1. Poor code support. Given that there are wikis that can syntax  
highlight code, we really should be using one. Automatic numbering  
would be nice too.

2. Lack of management features for complex pages, like section locking  
(would be nice to have particularly important pages have sections that  
can’t be defaced), internal hyperlinks and folding (see Wikipedia for  
example)

3. Lack of navigation features. A sidebar with all the categories  
would be a huge plus, for instance, and would encourage people to  
categorise their pages.

4. Lack of eye candy and cool features (this is a programmer’s wiki,  
after all, and we like to play with stuff!!)

Off the top of my head, I’d suggest a shift to mediawiki - lots of  
projects are using it, and it has extensive plugin and skin support.  
(I don’t believe that the wiki not being written in ruby detracts from  
anything).

martin