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  • From: lfl@intrex.net
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Wiki Web
  • Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 14:04:59 -0700

mIEKAL aND wrote:
Looking thru the various wiki engines there is one feature that I think might
be quite valuable if you have
the disk space. My group uses a swiki which is actually one of the simplest
of wiki engines but it allows
for uploads of .jpg, .gif & I believe .png files. It might be quite
wonderful to be able to populate the
wiki with illustrations & photographs of various plants, designs, gatherings
etc. I think one could design
that upload to restrict file size to under 30-40K so that none of the pages
would become inaccessible to
people with dialup connections. I also think that a lot of the groundwork
for a permaculture plant database
could be initiated with a wiki environment. But so far, in checking out the
various phpwikis online I havent
seen that feature as a part of any of them.

Using it to collect data for a PCPlantDB would be a good way to go. The Plant
wiki could become really useful and user
friendly though perhaps more rambling and spread out, slower than a
relational database. It would be much easier to
build though and more people could get involved in collecting, adding and
editing data. With extensive hyperlinked
(wikilinked?, winked?) lists and tables, access to plant information,
including photos and external links
could be almost as fast as a RDB and in some may offer more. In fact any
entry in a plant wiki database can be edited
by anyone (access can be limited as needed) _and_ each entry has its own
discussion forum!

Wikipedia allows file uploads, they call it file attachments. That particular
wiki requires login to be able to do
that but it can be configured for open access. I have decided to use PHPWiki
rather than the Python powered
Moin-Moin wiki, unless I am convinced otherwise.

swiki swiki
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/swiki

Another snazzy feature that I dont fully understand is the twiki
implementation which operates with
plug-ins. They have a plugin which allows a group of users to draw simple shapes
& enter text, ie we could
experiment with group design processes or someone that has a layout could put
their map online & make their
design process open territory to all. This seems to be a little more
sophisticated than other wikis & may be
beyond our scope but it sure got the ideas perculating in my head.

twiki
http://TWiki.org/

TWikiDrawPlugin
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TWikiDrawPlugin

That's wworth looking into. I'll check it out.

LL
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