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Civic wiki interface note-to-self

Matt Hampel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:25:06 +0000

Adding a link as a reference to a wiki page will automatically pull the organization that owns the link, the author, date published, etc.

So if you add: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20090719/SUB01/907189993

The system will write:
THIS JUST IN: Land bank authority getting off the ground. Crain’s Detroit. 19 July 2009.

Or something similar. It will not make you type this:

R. Smith, "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 46 (April 1978): 44-6.

Like some other systems we might name.

Would you like a system that does that, and a lot else? Paypal a 1-year commitment of $45,000 to matthew.hampel@gmail.com.

Media museum

Matt Hampel — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:25:15 +0000

I want a media museum. It is a exhibit museum. It is not Flickr.

It holds media of all types — text, photo, video, audio. I lay out media around a theme — here is a custom-designed page that presents video, audio, text about Chicago. Here’s another that uses some of the same elements, but it’s exhibit about wayfinding.

The exhibits can tour. You can use have some of my pieces to use in yours, but provenance (not scarcity!) is enforced.

Maybe you can comment on things. Maybe you can’t. I suppose you could suggest new pieces for my collection, but it’s my choice whether they appear right away or not, or if I even read your suggestions. Or maybe on this one exhibition we can all work together, because I’ve invited you.

Here’s what the museum looked like in its last revision, if you wanted to know.

Here’s everything in the highest resolution I’ve got.

The future digital humanities museum.

Sign my guestbook?

Wikify the CSS?

Matt Hampel — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:32:15 +0000

Brian wondered if the pageoftext plain output (that’s a nifty trick!) that is the arborwiki working-copy css could … actually be used as the CSS for the site?

The answer is: kind of. (for some short time, I have the css linked at dev.arborwiki.org). The formatting renders in webkit browsers, but not Firefox. Oh well.

Has anyone successfully implemented wikified css?

Looking for: a way to aggregate recent changes feeds

Matt Hampel — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:23:18 +0000

Is there an elegant way to aggregate the recent changes feeds of multiple wikis? I ask because MediaWiki’s RC RSS feed is particularly kludgy to read / react to.

ArborWiki | signs of life

Matt Hampel — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:38:18 +0000

ArborWiki has been upgraded to a more recent version of MediaWiki. Apart from the usual MediaWiki system changes, we’ve now got a Captcha (recaptcha, http://recaptcha.net) that’s triggered when (a) anonymous users post more than a certain number of external links or (b) on new user creation.

dev.arborwiki.org is now the place for new things — it seems that the good old days when I would want to experiment on the live site are over.

Please let me know if you’re interested in contributing to the development of ArborWiki, or have any issues with the meta recent changes.

[updated 15/9 to clarify; dev server was a good choice, not an AADL policy]