pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

[a few rough hewn ideas BK and I tossed around tonight about using Wiki in 
the development of the pcplantdb]

Lil'       10/16/20 1:14 AM  Yes, wiki has some great futures, I wonder if
                                  theres a way to export a simple text version
                                  of the DB to the wiki, allow ending in full
                                  text, then reinsert it into the DB, of 
course
                                  folks would have to be pretty strict in 
terms
                                  of syntax, or it'd get confused. I wonder if
                                  Chad could host his creation for a few of us
                                  to look at, if not the general public.

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:27 AM   about that: doing the above in reverse - we
                                  build the wiki with data formatted 
conforming to
                                  standards required by pfaf

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:22 AM  Yes, I'd like to see Chad's db version too. I
                                  emailed him about helping with the project 
and
                                  he said he probably would sometime early 
this
                                  winter after present committments are done

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:28 AM  - with certain levels of access to the wiki
                                  logged in users can download entire wiki as
                                  a zip file
                                  - maybe I could set up a special wiki just 
for
                                  the plantdb so that the
                                  entire wiki will be devoted to the plantdb 
and
                                  data would conform to required
                                  standards then - periodically the entire 
wiki
                                  can be downloaded and ported
                                  into the pfaf. I like this idea best.

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:29 AM  also - phpwiki dev team is working on preset
                                  access levels with permissions
                                  for wiki pages (i.e. edit command, download
                                  zip archive, etc.)
                                  this means having groups with special access
                                  to certain parts/all of a wiki.

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:31 AM  This will enable us to protect our work .
                                  Incentive would be provided for users to add
                                  data to the wiki
                                  if they ultimately want to see it in the 
PFAF
                                  db,
                                  though they could submit data directly to
                                  pfaf if they wished

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:34 AM  submitting it initially to the wiki allows
                                  them to be stakeholders - they get to create
                                  their own page where they can develop their
                                  own dataset - their data gets incorporated
                                  into the plantdb wiki with wikilinks or a 
copy
                                  of their data can be insered into the
                                  plantdbwiki in the appropriate places - 
users
                                  with their own

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:36 AM  pages would be the only ones with edit accesss to
                                  them. If wiki links are used to
                                  connect their data in their page to the main
                                  pcplantdb wiki page(s) they would
                                  need to format their data/pages to conform 
to
                                  the plantdb standard for formatting 
(hopefully
                                  so it would be compatible with input format
                                  required for data added to pfaf)

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:38 AM  This is exactly what true whitepages are
                                  supposed to do:
                                  allow users to collaborate on creation
                                  of a single project (db, info tree or
                                  document) - this is also what SSI does, 
server
                                  side includes  (I think xml may use this,
                                  don't know).

dirtfarmer 10/16/20 1:48 AM  in fact a website created expressly for the
                                  plantdb and plantdb wiki could indeed use 
ssi
                                  to interlink all the various pcplandb
                                  contributors' wikipages into a single 
coherent
                                  website - this would give us the opportunity
                                  to use html coding
                                  (not recommended in the wiki).


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