User:AaronPeterson

Hello,

I'm Aaron Peterson, my home page is http://escargot.icehouse.net . I plan to make my living delpoying wiki solutions.

 MrDarkUser on IRC
 509.332.7697  (Pullman, WA USA)
 ICQ 2302806

 1220 NE Myrtle St
 Pullman WA 99163

 My favorite email gets: incinerated at yahoo
 (you can add the dot com)

Wiki Experience

How I got into wikis

/How i got into wikis

sites (in timeline order)

• refined my philosophy at: www.openwiki.org (defunct) (owner unknown, my content vanished!)
• I rearranged the fresco wiki.. http://wiki.fresco.org ... and most of my changes are still in effect!
• Major Contributor to: http://www.subverted.net/wakka
• Contributor and Basher of: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org
• Operator of: http://escargot.icehouse.net/mediawiki

Wiki Goals

And, I am starting a project called Fractodendron, which aims to create, or encourage development of a distributed P2P server system for the masses. (my projects are at my wiki, linked to above)

I am planning to base my project on a wiki, and I should know the wiki very well, and make sure that others can use it very well too.

Wiki Habits

/Wiki habits /Wiki habits#loner /Wiki habits#spelling /Wiki habits#relations /Wiki habits#keeps content /Wiki habits#offline major revisions /Wiki habits#links to related content at top of page

Wiki Philosophy

/Wiki philosophy

Most Desired Features

• The subway station and The train man -- a name for the system that can do seamless wikipedia upgrades.
• Case insensitivity in wiki links. A MUST FIX for me to
• BackLinks with exclusion possibility is can take care of nested category problems.
• newline as newline
• customizable wikitags -- I want to have a few be "user defined", maybe based on category. or a howto to hack a few that I don't use.. THIS WOULD FIX A LOT OF FEATURE REQUESTS SATISFACTORALLY
• page ordering -- a list of links, on one page should be able to serve as a "seed" for creating a previous and next button, for documentation, and long lists.
• collapsing text boxes -- so a summary can be shown all the time, and a detailed explanation can be expanded -- like the table of contents feature.. but more integrated.
• share watchlists -- it should be possible to show your watchlist, it is a possible privacy issue though
• fork page -- (this page reminded me of the idea) -- basically a way to end flame wars, and could possibly build on the same history, saving a lot of diskspace on a mature page, and maintaining heiratige... or liniage information...
• BackLinks -- I'm getting along ok with categories though...
• Talk Merging -- like another thing that I just wrote, but merge talk pages with content page on a single click
• external address different icon for external vs changed name external -- it´s possible to trick people into going to a spoof of a bank´s website and enter credentials. (with piped link)
• Having mediawiki version be one of the Variables
• a book construct which embeds multiple wiki pages together, and or privdes chapter navigation
• Category create page form In the category page, there should be a wizard to create a new page in that category.
• sub pages and namespaces should be merged.. there is no reason to keep them seporate concepts, the features or orthoganal, and complimentary.

revenue generating ideas

• user reminders for peak times / resource intensive features based on statistics

Features found that were on the list

• nested categories -- categories are great, but one should be able to list under another one, as there are nearly as many possible categories as there are artilces... my convention of using backlinks is more scalable though... but.. nested categories is already a feature of MediaWiki! horrah!
• tolls were found to be a bad idea, however, we need to have our licence protect this freedom to search.