June 2007 - CGI-Wiki-dev

Review date field
by Dominic Hargreaves 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

OpenGuides has had a long-standing feature request from me which I'm now thinking about implementing: http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/1 The idea would be to prevent entries from getting too stale by storing some meaningful data about when the node was last checked over for accuracy (as opposed to other minor changes). This could be done a couple of ways: - as per http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Trinity%2C_SW4_0JG in free-text in the node content With a ticky-box: "If you have verified the content of this article as correct, please ticky ticky [ ]" Suggested rendering of this data - at the bottom of pages: "This page was last checked for accuracy on yyyy-mm-dd" This itself could be done two ways: - as Wiki::Toolkit metadata - automatically populate it with a standard string representation of the date if appropriate The way I'm starting to favour, though, is a new sort of Wiki::Toolkit data. This has the advantage that it can be typed correctly (as a date object). It's a bit more work to implement, but not too much. The question is, whether this is an appropriate addition to Wiki::Toolkit. Since it is in many ways similar to the modified stamp, I think it is. The question also arises of whether we could also use a "should be reviewed on the following date" - ie an explicitly staleness factor, rather than just inferring such (6 months after last reviewed date, for example). Would it be overkill to be able to specify both? Kake is in favour of retaining free text descriptions (useful of only some parts of the content have been verified) but this doesn't allow systematic searches on this data (so we can proactively go out and regularly review nodes, for example. There's no reason, of course, that we can't keep both functions - people can carry on doing this even if there is more structured data available too. Or we could add a separate free text field, as a normal metadata field. Any opinions welcomed. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Wiki developers' IRC meeting tonight, 8pm UTC
by Earle Martin 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hi all, You may be interested in attending the first occurrence of the new monthly wiki developers' meeting, in #wikiohana on irc.freenode.net, at 8pm UTC tonight. The agenda is at http://wikiohana.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/IrcMeetingJune2007 ; I think discussion will be mainly about the WikiCreole (http://wikicreole.org/) a proposed common format for wiki markup. It would be really cool if Wiki::Toolkit could support it in some fashion later down the line; and of course your feedback about the whole idea would be very welcome. Cheers, Earle. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Wiki Creole (was: Wiki developers' IRC meeting...)
by Earle Martin 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

On 06/06/07, Kake L Pugh <kake(a)earth.li> wrote: > But also, I think we might want to rethink the idea of using > Text::WikiFormat, especially as later versions break our UseMod > formatter (0.75 is the last safe version of T::WF, I think). Aren't > the Wiki Creole people planning to write reference implementations in > various languages? I hadn't heard that they were; maybe we should? Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter::Creole could be a wrapper around it. Incidentally, the Creole proposal has just reached 1.0. [1] It's open for discussion until June 13th, at which point it'll be frozen for two years. So if anyone has any pressing concerns, please voice them on the talk page before it's too late! [1] http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0 -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Corrrection: Wiki developers' IRC meeting tonight is at 9pm UTC
by Earle Martin 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Sorry, I managed to get the time wrong - the meeting is actually at 9pm UTC (i.e., 10pm BST). Thanks, Earle. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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