Editing articles
Matthew - I like the way that if I write an article that is a personal opinion or personal account, it can be edited only by me.
However, there would be other articles that it would be great if we could collaboratively build up. An example (off the top of my head) would be suggestions of good hot spring trips, and links to information on them.
Would it be possible, in future, to have the option when creating an article of choosing whether others can edit it or not? Or do you prefer that such collaborative things occur only through the forums?
Just an idea.
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We could call in Trampipedia :)
That is a good idea Madpom, to pool the fragments of info into a collective.
Another thought might be a dated alerts side bar for track/storm/hut damage or missing bridges that are still Topo-mapped.
There's a working but very focused example of this type of thing, since the TTC got permission from Merv Rodgers to put all of his 1996 Tararua Footprints book online.
Now it's a fluid wiki-style online reference which merely began with the text of the original book, although they've still restricted who's allowed to edit it so it's not as if they let anyone go in there to delete and rewrite stuff.
http://www.ttc.org.nz/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TararuaFootprints/HomePage
@izogi. The TTC example was the kind of collaborative work I'd hoped we'd achieve through editable-by-everyone 'track section' functionality, rather than through articles.
You can, as TTC have shown, do a good equivalent of a Moirs guide through a wiki-based set of articles containing route guides broken down per-river-catchment.
However, by putting an entire catchment (or park, or other big area) in a single article, you are ignoring the power of the platform you use by combining lots of short routes all into one article. If each route guide were created as a separate 'route' or 'section' then you can:
- map / view each separately
- allow users to select many routes and combine them into one single text route guide that they can print
- allow users to select many routes and view them all together on a map, and download them as a single GPX file
- allow users to search geographically around one route for connecting routes, even if they're in the next catchment
- you don't have the problem knowing where to put/find ridgeline routes that both TTC and Moirs really struggle with
Whereas in an article you just get a piece of fixed, static, text.
That said, maybe I'm hoping for too much and wanting something too complicated with my 'routes' idea such that
a) we won't get it because it;s too hard to implement, and
b) no-one will use it as it's too hard to figure out.
So maybe articles are a more pragmatic approach to get such a thing off the ground. It could always be broken down later into something more dynamic.
Absolutely. I've been meaning to add shared articles for ages. I might get some time this weekend. On track sections, that's not forgotten. Coming soon.
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