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[Sean Maley <semaley@yahoo.com>]

--- webmaster@pfaf.org wrote:
> OK after some time editing wikipedia I'm a bit more
> familiar with strengths and weaknesses of the
> system. I'll explain a bit more about wikis and the
> MediaWiki implementation, which is rather nice.
<snip>
> In conclusion
> -------------
>
> The wiki model, in particular the MediaWiki
> implementation, covers many of the features we need.
> It allows for extensible pages so new sections could
> easily be added without being limited by the
> underlying data structure. It has a powerful,
> flexible and extensible linking system which nearly
> meets our needs. Its also an out of the box system
> so little work to get it running. Out of interest
> there is a permaculture wiki city
> http://permawiki.wikicities.com but its rather empty
> at the moment.
>
> Rich

I have easily been tapping and gluing these PHP
products out there.  I'm kicking myself that I don't
have more spare time to go crazy.  The wiki makes a
great undisciplined collection point.  After seeing
what it took for adding in the timeline feature to
MediaWiki, clearly there is a need to add an extension
for eden/pfaf.  Perhaps a dialect could be developed
for it, like the timeline has:

<timeline>
DateFormat = mm/dd/yyyy
ImageSize  = width:800 height:250
PlotArea   = left:150 bottom:50 top:50 right:150
Period     = from:12/21/2002 till:12/31/2005
TimeAxis   = orientation:horizontal format:mm/dd/yyyy
ScaleMajor = gridcolor:black unit:month increment:3
start:01/01/2003
BarData=
  bar:NYSCOM text:"NYSCom"
  bar:HVE    text:"Hudson Valley Ecovillage"
  bar:NWNJ   text:"Ecovillage NW New Jersey"
  bar:GPSC   text:"Green Phoenix"

Colors=
  id:NYSCOM value:blue   legend:NYSCom
  id:HVE    value:red    legend:HVEcovillage
  id:NWNJ   value:yellow legend:EcovillageNWNJ
  id:GPSC   value:green  legend:Green_Phoenix

PlotData=
  bar:NYSCom from:12/21/2002 till:08/03/2004
text:NYSCom         color:NYSCOM
  bar:HVE    from:03/08/2004 till:end       
text:HVEcovillage   color:HVE   
link:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HVEcovillage
  bar:NWNJ   from:09/16/2005 till:end       
text:EcovillageNWNJ color:NWNJ   
link:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HVEcovillage
  bar:GPSC   from:08/03/2004 till:end       
text:GreenPhoenixFoundation color:GPSC  
link:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenPhoenixFoundation
</timeline>


This has the advantage that a back side interface can
control things like preventing fictitious botanical
names and minimizing spelling errors.  This also
presents the opportunity to collect factual data
(measures) for analysis.  A separate
[[Eden:Master|Sassafras]] could be used as a generic
reference throughout, or something like
[[Eden:Rich_Rootbeer_Event_2006|Sassafras]] to denote
a specific experience with measurable facts given on a
specified page like the markup above for the timeline.

Just some thoughts.


-Sean.

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