wikitime
Seems to me that a wiki would be really valuable for ResearchPages – maybe each group could have it’s own optional wiki at researchpages.net/groupacronym/wiki. Many people are using MediaWiki and would like to transfer existing wikis accross to the site. This needs to be balanced, however, with the negative of having two sets of markup language to learn to use ResearchPages – MediaWiki wikitext for the wiki and Textile for the CMS pages. A simple wiki should be easy to develop in textile within Django (benefit of using Django’s authentication, which the site uses anyway). SeamusC has already done most of the work. I’ll put something together this week. If I was feeling really brave I might even write an interpreter to convert MediaWiki text to Textile. No promises though…
11/09/07 0:14
Comments
- Michael Crouch says
- I have heard other members of Research Pages suggest that Wikis would be a welcome addition. Keep up the good work Martin!! :)
- 11/09/07 14:29
- Ben Godfrey says
- It seems to me that each group section already is a wiki. I can add pages. I can edit pages. All that's missing is easy linking I guess. So maybe adding the wiki way of creating page links to the Textile interpreter and then the bankend magic to display the "This isn't a page yet, create it now?" message. This brings up another point, if you discuss the groups functionality as a wiki and a contact database more eyes might light up in recognition. I'd stick to Textile though, that consistency across the site is vital! Textile is simpler as well, which never hurts.
- 11/09/07 15:08
- Adrian Southern says
- Hum... I think we will be looking for a wiki that we will eventually (March deadline) be able to role out to a wider community of potential users, the research is developing the tool kit and initially testing it with a select group of participants (non researchers with five research staff as part of the team). Where do we stand being able to develop something with an existing web based tool that is then easy for non scientists to use... the idea is this propagates itself, ideally nationally, although we are thinking Norfolk at this stage. For now I am going to bomb around these pages and push a few buttons and see what it can do, but I can see how you can say this is already a wiki... but I'm really liking this so far, but not sure if its going to help yet with the project I am just starting with Tyndall... I'm not sure how geared up you are yet to support transdiciplianry research that integrates the researchers with practioners and other people who are not researchers.
- 11/09/07 21:17
- Martin Johnson says
- I did it - only took a few hours! Any group can now have it's own wiki. As yet, individuals can't have one, but it wouldn't be too difficult to set up, if it would be a useful thing to have.
- 24/09/07 10:50