I actually use my private wiki for calendering purposes.
But indeed, this is not ready for the non-tech savvy people. I used Christof Damian's calendar extension for displaying. I now have settled on a predefined 'article' format for the individual days. Then I wrote a Perl script (I am more comfortable with Perl than with PHP) that will check each day's article and notify me when an 'appointment' is due.
It is merely a matter of convenience to keep it in the wiki in the first place. I have (as yet) no synchronisation of calendars what so ever, although the latest versions of Christof's extension could just help me out there (it seems it can produce iCal/vcal files).
On 12/4/06, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
On 12/4/06, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
You might try semantic mediawiki extension (http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page). It's not super simple, and I also agree with Kasimir, google apps for your domain would be the easiest if you want a calendar. I played around with semantic mediawiki for this purpose though, it works, but it's certainly not simple for people who don't like computers.
Which I fear is a problem for MediaWiki in general ... Anyway, suggestions to further simplify Semantic MediaWiki are always welcome. Or maybe we need to improve the documentation?
-- Markus
No, I think it does a good job doing what its main design is, saying something like this article subject was "born in" some date etc. But using it instead of a Lotus Notes/Outlook/Google calendars would be rough for non-tech people. I don't really think it should try harder to be those apps though, its not. It is actually flexible enough to use in that way though, if you need to, but I wouldn't want it to be the use-case that I was hoping would switch people to liking wikis. :D
If you're hoping to convert people, use mediawiki for procedures and documentation, that's way easier than calendaring :)
Judson _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l