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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>, piw@lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Re: [piw] Article on wikipedia
  • Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:19:31 -0800

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

Some combination of wiki and forum software, incorporated into the DB user
interface
(DB front end?), mightbe a good thing.

This might be the scheme of choice for record entry and record editing.
Every user maintains his own array of records containing plant data,
allowing suggestions for edits or permission to edit to other users.
With multiple data entries for the same plant, each user's entries could
be ranked on an excellence scale (maybe a poll or voting system) with
a winning entry picked each month to represent the "official" data on
any particular plant. This could change, month to month. This could

Speaking of systems for rating contributors, see this machinist forum:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000071

Topic: tolerances........

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Doug
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Further:
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile;u=00001017
In Doug's profile page one can rate him and see how many others have already
voted on him,
email him or read his recent posts. - as shown here:

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