dejo Wrote:I'm still not sure these ideas will satisfy my "vision" but maybe I'm expecting miracles. The problem is it's not really a binary issue (spoilers or no spoilers) but a multi-dimensional problem, because the interconnections are that complex. There may be some information that should only be displayed if a person has read a combination of works. If we restrict Reborn information to the Reborn page that means we can't acknowledge any connections. I understand this is a complex problem and therefore I anticipate a rather complex solution. (One of my axioms in life: "Complex problems require complex solutions." One of my other favorites being: "The average consumer is an idiot." Sorry to tangentalize.) Hope this helps you to understand where I'm coming from and where I'd like to take SPAMEL™. Ah, if only I was independently wealthy, I could take the week or two to just concentrate on this challenge full-time and see if I can get it licked.
Upon re-reading the posts, Idea 1 and Idea 2 do not really embody Dejo's SPAMEL™ ideal...but without a relational database system for each individual Interconnection, it would be difficult to show Interconnections for works that a user has read and NOT display Interconnections for the other works. This can, of course, be accommodated with ASP and mysql (or even other ways). However, while I am not an expert on the new Wiki, it seems far more of a flat-file type system than a relational database system.
What tools did you use to get your test Wiki to work Dejo?
If we know that, then Stepahnie can let us know if the tiddlywiki can incorporate those tools.
Suggestion: assuming we can get SPAMEL™ to work somehow, it would be interesting, instead of completely eliminating Interconnections to works that the user has not read, to replace them with a simple teaser that states "Connection to (other work that the user has not read yet)". For example, if I have read
By the Sword but not
Black Wind, instead of eliminating the details of the Interconnections that
By the Sword has to it, I would get a simple message for interconnections to
Black Wind like: "Kuroikaze, see also
Black Wind" or "Gaijin Samurai, see also
Black Wind." That way, I will have to go read
Black Wind in order to get the juicy details. Simply eliminating any reference to interconnections for
Black Wind would not allow the user to expand his knowledge of "the cannon."
-Wapitikev