Hi,
I am writing to request an SVN account to host source code for an extension
that we are currently developing for MediaWiki. This
extension is being developed by a collaboration of two Northeastern
University students and CIM Engineering, Inc (dba
"CIM3").
The Software Idea:
With 2,073,813 articles in English and growing, Wikipedia is the
world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopedic
knowledge. As more and more people adding content and using it as
reference for their research, it becomes important to know what
data resides where on the wiki. Users generally do this by book
marking page for future reference. Book marking option in web
browser let you bookmark the URL, which is generally the whole
page. With the amount of content on any given page, it might
still take a while to find the content user is looking for. The aim of
the projects is to produce an extension that will add Purple
Numbers and collaborative tagging capability to MediaWiki. Purple
Numbers will provide the following added functionality in
MediaWiki.
1.* High resolution addressability in a wiki page:*
With Purple Numbers, MediaWiki user can have high resolution
addressibility to a wiki page. The purpose of Purple Numbers is
simple: to produce HTML documents that can be addressed with high
resolution (also called "fine granularity"). It does this by
automatically creating name anchors with static (nidÿÿs) and
hierarchical (hidÿÿs) addresses at the beginning of each node,
and by displaying these addresses as links at the end of each
node.
2.* Transclusion:*
Transclusion is the inclusion of part of a document into another
document by reference. Transclusion is best explained by an
example. Consider the following scenario a user wants to display
some data (picture, chart, etc.) about X on page that mentions X
in some other content. With Transclusion, user can reference data
about X from the X page without copy/paste the data on their own
page. Since the data is referenced and not copied, any changees
made to the data will reflect on the userÿÿs page also.
3.* Collaborative tagging at node (Purple Numbers) level:*
Collaborative tagging (also know as folksonomy, social
classification, social indexing and other names) is the practice
and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to
annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional
subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but
also by creators and consumers of the content. Freely chosen
keywords are used instead of controlled vocabulary.
Some Important Links:
Project Wiki:
http://project.cim3.net/wiki
http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX
Project Status:
http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX
History of Purple Numbers:
http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PurpleNumbers
http://www.bootstrap.org/#9B
http://www.eekim.com/software/purple/purple.html
http://collab.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PurpleNumbers
Transclusion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
Collaborative tagging:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_tagging
The Team:
http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX#The_Team
Can someone suggest on this?
Thanks
--Viral