(urth) Wiki

[Matthew King]

On Sep 21, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Nathan Spears wrote:
>
> Assuming the wiki would be more structured than "Chapter 1: An  
> endless series of comments", etc, you almost need a chapter and  
> verse breakdown of the book for cross-referential purposes.  And  
> you also need editors who will condense comments into appropriate  
> lengths for insertion into the main body of the wiki, and link out  
> to longer essays that touch on a verse but for whatever reason  
> (length, theme, etc) don't belong in the main body?  I'm imagining  
> here someone re-reading the BotNS and looking at the wiki  
> simultaneously, getting play by play, with links to appropriate  
> other places in the wiki.  Then at the end of the chapter or book  
> or tetralogy are essays dealing with themes and all that sort of  
> thing, which don't really have a place in the "flow" of reading the  
> book.
>
> So basically you need a few people to agree on a structure and then  
> impose it rigorously; otherwise the wiki will be like the list but  
> with more hyperlinks.  Which wouldn't be terrible but the other  
> would be more fun.

Maintaining this kind of structure with an off-the-shelf wiki might  
be difficult.  Are there any Ruby on Rails developers on the list who  
would like to collaborate on a custom solution?

Matthew