Thanks, Jeremy! Hmmm... I did add the favicon tiddler, but maybe it was an svg rather than an ico file. Will fix this in a moment.
On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 10:03:51 AM UTC-6 jeremy...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Dave > > Great, I’ve added your site: > > https://links.tiddlywiki.com/contributors/giffmex/ > > You should add a small square avatar image called $:/favicon.ico to make > things look right (see below). > > I made the initial guideline 5-10 words because I think shorter > descriptions work best, but I agree that we may want to increase the > guideline. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > > On 22 Mar 2021, at 15:57, David Gifford <dgif...@crcna.org> wrote: > > 1. Yay! I was wondering when the TW community would get round to this. It > really needed your initiative, Jeremy. Thanks! It will be nice when this > can take the place of the Toolmap. > > 2. Correction: I add the links in TiddlyWiki toolmap to as many categories > as I think are appropriate, and ofte tell the creators to let me know if > they belong in additional categories. I recommend that people do a search > in the Toolmap to see how many categories a plugin has already. That might > give them more ideas for tags in the TWCLA. > > 3. The 5-10 word limit you mentioned for descriptions is restrictive. Most > of the descriptions in the toolmap have the advantage that I have taken > them right from the plugin demo sites themselves. I try to keep them to a > line or two. People might consider the descriptions there when adding their > links. > > 4. Yes, I will add a bunch of links myself! But this week I have a lot on > my plate. > > 5. *Could you add mine?* Username: giffmex site URL: > https://giffmex.org/gifts/twcla.html. I added one link for now to make > sure I did it right. > > On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 1:54:56 PM UTC-6 jeremy...@gmail.com wrote: > >> It seems like a first step would be to convert the community resources >> into links. A second step might be to convert TiddlyWiki Toolmap into links. >> >> >> Yes to both. >> >> One of the reasons I didn't add tiddlywiki.com as a source is because >> the tiddlers there have a bunch of other tags that aren't meaningful in >> this context. So it would be great if anyone would like to clean them up >> and put them in a wiki somewhere. >> >> In the case of the Toolmap, it might well be a community effort to get >> everything moved across in a useful way. As I understand it, links in the >> toolmap are filed under a single set of hierarchical categories, while the >> links aggregator allows for multiple topics to be assigned to each link. >> >> What happens if two people share the same link? >> >> >> That's a good thing! This site is modelled on an ancient "Web 2.0" site >> called "del.icio.us" (see >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website) ), where the idea is >> that multiple people bookmarking a particular link is taken as a sign of >> the popularity of that link. So, bookmarking a site is a vote of confidence. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 12:17:16 PM UTC-7 joshua....@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> This is a FANTASTIC idea. Bravo. Will be digesting alongside the >>> Tiddlywiki-on-Fission work being done. >>> >>> Are we starting to approach a 'standard' "Link Tiddler" format? That's >>> also cool to see, as I intend to have a few different wikis to curate links >>> for various topics. Setting one up for Tiddlywiki-focused bookmarks only >>> will be easy. :) >>> >>> Best, >>> Joshua Fontany >>> >>> On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 12:09:43 PM UTC-7 Mat wrote: >>> >>>> Well, it should come as no surprise what I think of this: >>>> >>>> HOOORAYYY!!!! >>>> >>>> Thank you Jeremy! I'll sign up as soon as I figure out a good wiki for >>>> it. >>>> Two notes: >>>> >>>> 1) The links at TiddlyWikiLinks currently don't seem to work. E.g >>>> clicking on federatial.com doesn't lead to that site. >>>> 2) There's something about Motovun Jack... and I cracked it ;-) >>>> >>>> <:-) >>>> >>>> On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 6:00:23 PM UTC+1 Jeremy Ruston wrote: >>>> >>>>> One of the obstacles we face as a community is that we don’t have a >>>>> good place for us to curate and share bookmarks to useful resources. Dave >>>>> Gifford has shown what's possible with his ToolMap, an invaluable >>>>> community >>>>> resource. But it’s a huge challenge for any one person to keep an >>>>> undertaking like that up to date, let alone complete. >>>>> >>>>> So, I’m pleased to announce TiddlyWikiLinks, a community links >>>>> aggregator that allows us to collectively curate bookmarks: >>>>> >>>>> https://links.tiddlywiki.com >>>>> >>>>> The way it works is that multiple contributing editors each maintain >>>>> their own TiddlyWiki containing their bookmarks. These wikis are >>>>> registered >>>>> with the system on GitHub, and then at intervals a script retrieves all >>>>> the >>>>> links and aggregates them together into a new wiki. >>>>> >>>>> The above links are to a static rendering to help Google find things, >>>>> but the information is also available in TiddlyWiki format: >>>>> >>>>> https://links.tiddlywiki.com/wiki.html >>>>> >>>>> It’s easy to set up to be a contributing editor. The main requirement >>>>> is that bookmarks be kept as tiddlers tagged "$:/tags/Link" with an “url” >>>>> field containing the URL. So, for example, I’m “jermolene”, and all my >>>>> links are to be found at: >>>>> >>>>> https://links.tiddlywiki.com/contributors/jermolene/ >>>>> >>>>> My bookmarking wiki is here: >>>>> >>>>> https://jermolene-links.tiddlyhost.com >>>>> >>>>> If enough people volunteer to be contributing editors, we can spread >>>>> the workload and make something much more valuable than any of us could >>>>> do >>>>> individually. I’d be happy if we had a handful of contributing link >>>>> editors >>>>> making high quality bookmarks, but I think this system could be scaled to >>>>> at least a few hundred. >>>>> >>>>> If you’re interested, please reply here with the URL of your >>>>> bookmarking wiki and your choice of username. >>>>> >>>>> As ever, there’s a lot to do on the development side to take this >>>>> forward: >>>>> >>>>> * Improving the styling (consider the current colour scheme and >>>>> styling to be a placeholder!) >>>>> * Adding JavaScript-based interactivity (particularly search) >>>>> * Adding support for multiple languages >>>>> * Adding an RSS/Atom feed >>>>> >>>>> The development has required setting up another GitHub organisation in >>>>> order to get another GitHub Pages site: >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/TiddlyWikiLinks/TiddlyWikiLinks >>>>> >>>>> (For those with long memories, this is, of course, a variation of the >>>>> "TWederation" archiecture we have discussed as a community for a long >>>>> time). >>>>> >>>>> I’ve been able to put this together in a few days thanks to all that >>>>> I’ve learned on my recent client projects. My personal goal for 2021 >>>>> remains to get a Community Plugin Library up and running for TiddlyWiki. >>>>> The link aggregator is a simpler proposition that should give us some >>>>> valuable experience for that initiative. >>>>> >>>>> Questions and thoughts welcome, >>>>> >>>>> Best wishes >>>>> >>>>> Jeremy. >>>>> >>>>> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c423a5c6-1964-4578-ad31-1f1db958e1f9n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c423a5c6-1964-4578-ad31-1f1db958e1f9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cab85630-fe38-411b-888e-e98428f4dbfan%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cab85630-fe38-411b-888e-e98428f4dbfan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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