Hi Jed, > The idea is that each part of this could be split into its own wiki > edition/plugin (or tiddler swarm) that can be imported to other wikis. > http://nolearningrequired-full.tiddlyspot.com
Right, that's what I'd call swarms. There's a home location, some origin, where they emerge, going out in the workd. Now, one could jump ahead and call all that a "plugin", and for some things that would be the appropriate term. But that "plugin" word has a heavy connotation and implies some developer background and responsibility, if not just versioning, specs, documentation, etc... whereas a basic swarm pretty much had some origin indicator and a datestamp of its creation, with a lot less expectations attached to it in terms of providing the most stable experience... could be just some funny noise, a friends photo-album, a collection of jokes or quotes... Contacts have always been things people wanted to use in TiddlyWiki, effortlessly... so, if you want to call that a plugin or not, I don't know. What I do think is that the ecosystem might have a certain boost if people were thinking more in terms of sharing swarms or bundles of tiddlers... some of those bundles are functional things called plugins or themes, other's are really content-templates, dictionaries (think flashcards), all kinds of useful or simply shared bundles that were made such to facilitate exchanging them. Right now, we do have those tiddlers with a field "plugin-type:" and that could be populated with a value of "swarm" ...or whichever word best indicates that we're talking about a more losely defined bundle, rather than some official plugin / theme / language... it could stay empty ...simply some form of "shared package"... and, as for me, chances are you want them listed first, because in terms of your actual wiki contents, they might just hold the reference content most relevant to you. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
