Hi Jed,
Nice idea.
It is possible to automatize the updates using an external script, like
I did with the "community search". This way authors don't have to alert
the list maintainer every time.
Regards
Erwan
On 07/01/15 05:11, Jed Carty wrote:
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?
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