Permaculture Database

[Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>]

Rich this is very interesting... I have been wondering about Wikis for a 
long time but had no idea what they could do.
Let me get this strait.  You took your PFAF database, and used a custom 
module to use it to create a massive Wiki with an article for each 
plant, assigning categories to specified fields.  The Wiki then

Once you create the wiki, is it then detached from the source data?

{{prop|Soil Type|light}}  and is this formatting simply using wiki 
formatting to assign the text to a category hierarchy... category 
property, subcategory soil type, value = light or something like that.

> > To show what can be done with a wiki I've now got a wiki with the pfaf 
> > database in it at
> >         http://www.pfaf.org/wiki/index.php
> >
> > I've added some extensions to media wiki to make it easier to use more 
> > semantic style elements
> >    
What is a semantic style element?
What you refer to as the 'template mechanism' -- is this a tool in the 
wiki toolkit?

I've got a lot of techno-language to catchup on.  Can you identify a 
free info source that can give me an understanding of exactly what a 
wiki is doing, how the interface works with the data, and the vocabulary 
that goes along with that so I can communicate better.

Thanks!!
Paul