Permaculture Database

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

All (but Rich in particular)
Can we have a function where upon drafting a page you can select 
category tags from a list of avaiable category tags?  At the bottom a an 
edit page you can check box from a series of relatively stable 
'metacategories' that would help organize content.

I would propose that a system of categories combined with an easier tool 
for tagging a page from a finite set of categories would make this Wiki 
more powerful, Gradual evolution of a set of core categories would make 
the wiki easier to navigate, and assist in defining database objects.

Are these the two functions of the wiki:

1. begin generating narrative content on permaculture concepts?
2. serve as a forum for discussing a second generation database product 
that might derive its structure or content in part from wiki content?

If we are to take on #1 fruitfully, think that a systematic 
'metacategory' list that defines how pages fit into a proposed taxonomy 
of permaculture ideas would go miles to making a wiki more interesting 
and servicable.  That category list could be debated on a page, and 
changes to metacategories could be moderated to reduce flux.

guild, plant, pattern, technique, resource, participant, site, region, 
etc...

The fits and starts of silence are unnerving... I plugged in a fit of 
editing, and then no counter edits... any interpretation of this 
phenomena would be helpful.

Paul