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RE: [grubstreet] [OT] using Wiki for people contacts

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: RE: [grubstreet] [OT] using Wiki for people contacts
Date: 17:37 on 19 Dec 2002
On Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:17 PM, Alex McLintock [SMTP:alex@xxxx.xx.xx] 
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm asking a generic Wiki question here rather than a Grubstreet one. Sorry.
>
> I run a Wiki as my company information store - ie any old notes here and
> there get shoved in there rather than on post-it notes.
>
> What I want to do is to start using it as a contacts database. I speak to
> an awful lot of people in the  book industry, financial world, software
> world, and so on.
> I find it hard to keep track of everyone. I'm thinking that doing it as a
> Wiki would be best. I can write a page about everyone with their important
> details.
>
> I am wondering whether anyone else has already tried this and could offer
> me advice?
>
> One Grubstreet thing I like is the use of Categories. I am thinking of
> adding categories to my Wiki. I assume no code changes are required from
> Usemod?
> Instead of Categories I currently use the "directory" facility eg
> "Publishers/HarperCollins" or "OpenSource/Apache" but that has obvious
> limitations.
>
> I'm rambling. Any tips?

Think about how you intend to structure the wiki. Usemod has 2 levels, i.e. 
page/subpage. You might have a main page for each client, and subpages for 
different bits of info. I can't see the rationale for having 'Publishers' as a 
top level Publshers would be better as a category.

You might have HarperCollins/Contacts and HarperCollins/ReviewBooks as separate 
pages. The page HarperCollins would be a template that you can clone for new 
publishers, with all the navigaion in place for the subpages.

You might also be interested in a wiki patch I have under beta test (I assume 
you are using usemod). This enables automatic indexing of pages by content, 
using a special type of link. See http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/wikibeta.pl

Hope this helps,

Ivor.


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