How-to Install the Zones Plugin

The Federated Wiki - Zones Pluging, type: zones, extends the markup of the federated wiki. github

The plugin is used, for example, on the Text and Video Chats page.

See The Day Scott Tried Wiki for a motivating example.

The following TypeError message appears if the plugin is not installed on your server and you click `help`.

Can't find plugin

Now we want to get the plugin up and running on your server.

- You need Plugmatic, fortunately it is preinstalled. - You need to choose Plugmatic on the Factory menu. - You need a Factory item, that comes from the [+] button - You need a place to put it …

wiki-plugin-zones

- You need to type the plugin name which isn't Zones but `wiki-plugin-zones`. - You need to close the editor with the right keystroke. - You need to click on the red stoplight to install. - But the stoplight is gray because you are not admin.

Prerequisite: You are an administrator.

**NB.** We assume that users can install and run wiki with the following command.

$ npm install -g wiki $ wiki

This means that we can assume that people are already familiar with npm (but don't know about Plugmatic). So why even introduce the Plugmatic concept in a Local-First Software scenario? How about continuing with the npm concept we have already introduced?

Wouldn't it be enough to tell people how to find the packageDir? (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/wiki/node_modules)

cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/wiki/node_modules npm i wiki-plugin-zones wiki

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