After some of the conversations during the hangout earlier today about the federation ideas and passing information between tiddlers I wanted to try putting together a mostly simple way to create some sort of centralize listing of community plugins that wouldn't be impossible to maintain. The idea discussed in the hangout (in the chat window, so I don't know if it can be seen in the video) was to have each plugin author make a tiddler that holds a standard set of information, then the author alerts the list maintainer that there has been an update and the list maintainer imports the tiddler with the information into the list/directory wiki.
This list could be updated faster than the main tiddlywiki site, and wouldn't necessarily only list finished plugins so that people who are interested in what is being developed have a central place to look. There is of course github, but form what I have heard on this list and during the hangouts many people aren't going to go search github to find out what is new. I have made a quick example of what I am thinking of. The card tiddlers are listed here http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Plugin%20TWcard Some of the relevant information from each card is displayed with a simple display template here http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#TWcard%20Listing%20-%20Plugins so that any cards imported into the wiki are automatically added to the list And here is a form that can be filled out to generate the cards quickly and easily http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Make%20Plugin%20TWcard The display template and information on the cards can be changed of course, please give me feedback on what should be included, or any display templates people think would be useful. I am envisioning multiple lists generated for different types of plugins, so multiple display templates would be needed. The form to create the cards is self contained and doesn't use anything but the core wiki, so a developer could import that single tiddler into their wiki to make the cards. I am trying to make it as close to automated as possible to encourage people to use it, and hopefully if people like the idea and this works than we could do a similar thing for the swarms/shoals/schools/whatever of tiddlers that would import a set of non-plugin tiddlers into a wiki, or a listing of public wikis that aren't necessarily the sort of reference/help wikis listed on the main site to show off what is possible. I would volunteer to maintain the plugins list at least, if people like the idea enough to use it. Any thoughts? Criticisms? Suggestions? -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
