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Over at Scanfest today, the conversation turned to telling tales of our less-than-stellar ancestors. Yes, we all have some. … [continued]
JLiki
Since alternate methods of publishing are a source of consternation at the Legacy Mailing List again … And since I’m on a bender with MRIN’s again … And since I’ve been working on my personal version of JLiki the last couple of days … … [continued]
Are any Firefox users having a problem getting to JLiki? It’s crashing my browser. I can’t even get onto the main TiddlyWiki site.
It looks like a war on Tiddlies, but it could be just my computer. Can you please give it a try if you haven’t yet, and report back your insights?
After more than a month harping on about JLiki I feel like I must have been talking in a vacuum. I know some of you read through from beginning to end but it’s so quiet out there. (I expected a parade.)
After almost two years of thinking out loud this feels like the end of the road for me, organization-wise. My genealogy computer life has gone from increasingly complicated to flat-out simple in about a minute. In the end my main interest is output because why else am I doing this? If just to entertain myself it wouldn’t be enough. Everything else is on the path to getting there.
If you’ve read the previous JLiki posts you have everything you need to build your genealogy wiki. But in WikiWorld there’s always more. Some of it’s easy and some of it’s way-out-there. … [continued]
In JLiki 8, I showed how to link images to your wiki. You can link to any type of document or multimedia file: HTML, PDF, PPS, DOC, audio, video, whatever you have. If you have the software to create it or open it, you can link to it. TXT is OK; RTF is really not unless you can make it open directly with something besides your browser. You might as well do something that looks better. You can just as easily save the page as HTML.
As explained in JLiki 6, there are two ways of adding content to your wiki; directly through tiddlers or through linking files. Sometimes you’ll want to add a photo to a tiddler. And sometimes you’ll want to link to external albums and other documents. So it’s time to start talking about making links.
First, you need to think about where you’re going to gather your material. Previously, I made three folders; docs, images, and albums.
Check List from JLiki 6:
- Write a summary of one person
- Make a list of WikiWords for their main activities and events
- Add tags for all names in the summary
If you’ve got a basic sense of tiddlers, tags and WikiWords from JLiki 5, it’s time to move on to telling stories.
Stories don’t really have beginnings. People just pretend they do. Then they go backwards and forwards and sideways in the telling. Have you ever heard a story without tangents? Probably not. So, it doesn’t matter where you begin, it just matters that you do. … [continued]
If you’ve completed JLiki 4, you should have some direct-line ancestors lined up in your MainMenu now. Each one of the ancestors in your MainMenu is a WikiWord and therefore represents a tiddler.
As soon as you start writing a tiddler several things happen. I’m going to try to keep from confusing myself by not talking about them all at once.
