thanks for this plugin.  it might help me in my application, which is to provide album/galleries which can be edited (ie. new images added, taken away, etc.) through web interface.

> That's my goal eventually, too. Perhaps you can help to
> design/write this plugin? At the moment I'm mostly
> waiting for a design "sanity check" from [[Joey]],
> but any feedback you can provide on the design would
> also be helpful. --[[smcv]]

i have two challenges: firstly, for installation, i'm not sure what all the files are that need to be downloaded (because of my setup i can't easily pull the repo).  so far i have Ikiwiki/Plugins/album.pm; ikiwiki-album; and 4 files in templates/  any others?

> Those are all the added files; ikiwiki-album isn't strictly
> needed (IkiWiki itself doesn't use that code, but you can
> use it to turn a directory full of images into correct
> input for the album plugin).
>
> You probably also want the album plugin's expanded version of
> style.css (or put its extra rules in your local.css).
> Without that, your albums will be quite ugly.
>
> There aren't currently any other files modified by my branch.
> --[[smcv]]

secondly: barring the CGI interface for editing the album, which would be great, is there at least a way to use attachment plugin or any other to manually add images and then create viewers for them?

> Images are just attachments, and viewers are pages (any supported
> format, but .html will be fastest to render). Attach each image,
> then write a page for each image containing the
> \[[!albumimage]] directive (usually it will *only* contain that
> directive).
>
> The script ikiwiki-album can help you to do this in a git/svn/etc.
> tree; doing it over the web will be a lot of work (until I get
> the CGI interface written), but it should already be possible!
>
> The structure is something like this:
> 
> * album.mdwn (contains the \[[!album]] directive, and perhaps also
>   some \[[!albumsection]] directives)
> * album/a.jpg
> * album/a.html (contains the \[[!albumimage]] directive for a.jpg)
> * album/b.jpg
> * album/b.html (contains the \[[!albumimage]] directive for b.jpg)
>
> Have a look at ikiwiki-album to see how the directives are meant to
> work in practice.
>
> --[[smcv]]

i'm new to ikiwiki, apologies if this is dealt with elsewhere.  -brush

> This plugin is pretty ambitious, and is unfinished, so I'd recommend
> playing with  a normal IkiWiki installation for a bit, then trying
> out this plugin when you've mastered the basics of IkiWiki. --[[smcv]]