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
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
loner
I have been a lone wikier, and have little experience working with others. I have some of my own terminology, and have spend many, many hours thinking about wikis. I am used to being unopposed, however, I believe that I am naturally well tempered, but I may speak harshly or crudely when positioned in a WikiWar. I will, however, at the same time be considering what I can consede.
spelling
I don't really care for spending lots of time correcting spelling. I will use Konqueror for it's spell checker if need be. (even though it's always loading pages from URLs in the clipboard, and poping up invalid URL messages)
relations
I tend to view many things as being relaited, even when others don't. I would prefer to be given a chance, as I can explain the connection, or subtleties of meaning.
keeps content
I always attempt to find a place for content on the web site, and or keep content live on another page. (however I finally learned that one should click on the date in the page history to view the older version of the page... and this isn't as important for me now) however, live pages are more respectfull to a previous author.
offline major revisions
I try to develop new versions of high trafic pages on a prototype page, then make the move in one quick move, with the old site a wikilink away.
links to related content at top of page
navigation is a very important issue, I want categories to be at the top of the page! grr.... however! due to the wonders of css, I should be able to make categories float at the top of the page. (I hope)
I don't like having to scroll a long way to find the related content, that I was really searching for.
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)
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!