[Semediawiki-user] individualized forms/properties

[Matt G. <go...@na...>]

How difficult would it be to individualize some elements of a form?  In  
particular, I have a wiki that I plan to be general in purpose (containing  
information about the natural history of Southeast Alaska), but I would  
also like to use it to track personal information (in my case, it would be  
things like whether I've documented a given species, or read a given  
reference).  I don't  mind other people being able to query the  
properties, so that's not an issue.  I just don't want others to be able  
to modify these particular properties, though I would like to have them  
included on the forms I see.

As the only administrator of the wiki, I suppose I could make the entries  
non-editable by non-administrators, but I would prefer they not even show  
up except to me.

More generally, I guess it might be interesting to allow others to do the  
same sort of tracking, so that raises the question of how difficult it  
would be to have properties linked to individual users.  I guess I would  
imagine a property like "has observed" which would be a simple yes/no  
(check/uncheck) but recorded separately for each user.  The most likely  
use would be for users to keep track of their own species (or whatever)  
lists.  It also might be of interest to find all users who have observed a  
given species.

Matt Goff
http://wiki.seaknature.org/