On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:58:40AM -0700, David Artman wrote: > > Hmmm.... Giving it some thought, I don't see a reason why conventions > couldn't become Categories at the wiki, and you just add them to your > User page with the [[Category:convention_name]] code. Hmmm...I like this idea as a temporary solution. It looks like it captures all the relevant functionality and it doesn't require much work to get it underway. I don't like it as a permanent solution for a few reasons: 1. I think it would be extremely advantageous for the convention roster to be ultimately database-driven. It allows a lot more flexibility in how the data is used in a number of ways. 2. Many Rabbits aren't terribly wiki-savvy, and may not be interested in learning wiki code. The [[Category:convention_name]] tag is slightly unintuitive, and it requires editing your user page and typing in a code which requires balancing brackets. This is a lot more than browsing someone's Rabbit Profile and thinking, "Oh yeah, I go to that convention, too!", [click], [click], now it's in my Profile! 3. The Rabbit Profile != a Rabbit's User page. Having some data in one place and some in the other is . . . confusing. 4. As I mentioned above, making a convention a Category is somewhat unintuitive. While I think it will probably have the desired behavior, it feels a bit kludgy to me. It could just be an issue of nomenclature, though. > Heck, it seems MORE powerful as well as more consolidated and useful > than the only way at LL.com. To me, at least--I'm gonna do my > conventions today, in fact. I'll probably edit my User page sometime this afternoon as well. I'd like to explore how this works, and, as I said, it seems like an excellent short-term solution. Marc
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