Topsoil
- Grass is the AboutUs commons
- Trees are websites that target a specific audience
- Signal to Noise ... Filter Recent Changes
- Branding ... your own url, your own skin
- Easy linking with the commons
The idea behind topsoil is that there is grass and there are trees. Grass refers to the AboutUs commons, i.e. stuff that belongs to everyone. Trees, on the other hand, are external websites that AboutUs hosts in a special way. Users can have their websites slurped in by AboutUs so that it gets wiki-ized. A big edit button appears on every hosted page so that the user can easily edit pages the wiki way. Also, the AboutUs commons becomes available under the user's domain name and the user's branding and styling can be applied to the commons so that the look stays coherent.
Depicts things going to be. Grass tells about things common. Trees essentially are websites that link to wikis. One can actually host his websites on aboutus and this will give him better access to him and other people(can be restricted) to edit this page. So, in this way, every user builds a tree of the websites/pages that he can edit/owns. So, as a result we will have pages that will be overlapped or will interest people and will let people interact on them.
Discussion
This is great! Any ideas about what changes we'll be seeing in the next few weeks and which will take months? Thanks! TedErnst
Next
- Plan the migration
- Linking and create page fully working
- Crawling ... ruby webspider
- Formatting buttons working
- Double click or edit button on transclusions