[Mediawiki-l] calendaring and scheduling with MediaWiki

[Frederik Dohr]

Hello,

While searching for a "killer app" for convincing my colleagues of the 
advantages of a wiki (see the thread on corporate wiki success factors), 
I realized that calendaring and scheduling might be a very good thing to 
start with.
This way everyone could, for example, enter their periods of absence 
(e.g. vacations, out-of-office meetings etc.) in the wiki without the 
hassle we currently have with these issues (we're mostly using an Excel 
sheet for that at the moment).

However, I wonder how best to present the respective data.
Using the EasyTimeline extension probably wouldn't be a good thing for 
starters, as its use is a little more complicated than the basic wiki 
syntax.
A huge table might do the job, but its "source code" (i.e. wiki syntax) 
would probably look like a huge mess to most of my colleagues.
So that leaves me with an ordinary sequential list - maybe with years 
and months as (sub-)headings? The whole thing might look something like 
this:
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Simple_Timeline

Hmm, come to think of it, a shared Excel table might actually be better 
then - also because it'd be easier to highlight weekends and holidays 
there!?
What do you think of my assessment of this situation - any ideas?

Thanks a lot in advance!


-- Frederik