I'm rescuing this concrete suggestion, since most people probably have the 'violent activities' thread in their killfile by now. (Sorry about that, I'm as guilty as any of adding personal anecdotes instead of productive contributions).<br>
<br>The problem: have a community-maintained list of activities that is viewable and/or searchable in different cross-sections based on need. It should integrate well with the wiki, so probably the first place to look is for mediawiki extensions.<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>There are several that might help:<br>
1. You could do an evil hack by combining page inclusion with the well-tested PageFunctions (for variables declared at the top of an including page) and ParserFunctions (for using in templates that can hide themselves depending on the variable values). This would involve hacktastic, hard-to-maintain work for each new slice view you wanted to implement. However, if you keep things simple (all, unproblematic, core), this would not be too hard, and populating it could be done by anyone able to copy and edit wiki templates.<br>
2. The WikiDB extension [1] appears to be a beta version of precisely what is wanted here. From quickly browsing its homesite, it appears to be working, but possibly too buggy to slap onto a wiki as large as the OLPC one. Significantly, it does not guarantee that the databases it creates will stay in sync under rarer operations (restoring deleted pages...), nor does it appear at first to have a way to regenerate its databases if they do get hosed. Go have a look if you're interested and tell us what you think.<br>
3. Semantic mediawiki is a heavyweight replacement version of Mediawiki with some tools that, while they are not precisely what we want, would work for this issue. The focus is more on browse than on preconstructed views integrated with a wiki page - I think that for us the latter would probably be better. Probably overkill.<br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://www.kennel17.co.uk/testwiki/WikiDB" target="_blank">http://www.kennel17.co.uk/testwiki/WikiDB</a><br>
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