permaculture

[lfl@intrex.net]

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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