TiddlyWiki Resource Center

[Tobias Beer]

Hi everyone esp. @ Osmosoft,

Reminded by Yoann [1] for the need of such, I think it is high time
for a professional, dedicated TiddlyWiki resource center supplying
plugins / scripts / transclusions / usecases / whitepapers ...well a
repository for all kinds of extensions.

I believe this should be the driving force in TiddlyWiki presentation
and plugin management as opposed to posts in discussion groups and
loads of places scattered all over the web to look for stuff. This
last statement of course is not an attempt to diminish any individual
achievements but only a call for a much needed gathering place.

While I generally like Tiddlyhub - and please correct me if I am wrong
- I believe it's missing a few vital features...

1) plugin categories, maybe with respect to different root concepts
such as... what technical TW/HTML/JS/JQUERY aspects or elements it
deals with vs. use-case oriented categories. Thus, a plugin might for
example have a tech category of "tags" and a use-case category of
"listings", another might be tech: "DOM" and useCase: "presentation",
etc...

2) the ability for plugin authors
- to first of all find registration information for the publiishing
workflow on Tiddlyhub
- not to point to an overall repository but to maintain URI and
description information for plugins INDIVIDUALLY...

For example, as a plugin author I would want to be able to point
TiddlyHub to a plugin URL (being a tiddler) which defines the plugin's
essentials via slices. Like that I would only have to register some
plugin once and then have TiddlyHub parse the PluginInfoTiddler for
the required information, which I only ever edit at this plugin repo-
info tiddler.

Even better would be the ability to define a plugin collection in a
tiddler which itself would contain nothing but full-path-url's to the
plugins being maintained by the author... which again were to be in
the (yet to be defined?) format above, however not necessarily located
in the same wiki as the collection tiddler.

3) Interactivity, social networking (facilitators), a more human
touch... like user profiles (maybe imported from an individual profile
tiddler in ones profile space or wiki, etc.)

What I am trying to say is that, as an author, it's already quite some
work to keep up with updates, deployed, includable versions, examples,
tutorials, documentation, the work of others, etc... so that
registering with a Repository Management System like TiddlyHub should
only require a one time setup, periodically updated by TiddlyHub on a
"per plugin" basis.

In other words... I don't want to maintain another TiddlyWiki into
which I am forced to put all my plugins hoping they'll all go well
together... whether or not the desire for them to do just that is
actually justified. I also would rather not want to (have to) register
multiple repo's with TiddlyHub. I would desire a single place for me
to be able to manage plugin information with respect to things for
which I consider myself to be the author or current maintainer.

Please do tell, if I am asking too much.


Cheers, Tobias.


[1] http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/c8fa01bf4b450038