I've been working on something over the last 6 months for the Hitchhiker's Guide, which you can picture as HyperCard in Wiki. The idea is to embed small HyperCard like stacks in a frame inside wiki.
For Hitchhiker's we will use the mini-applications as highly customised experiments for H2G2 Authors to augment their work.
# Examples 1. One author may need to create a curated list of images for a weekly contribution to the site. 1. Another author may wish to take organised categories of posts, and re-publish these categories in a more modern and elegant way. 1. A researcher may wish to work with an ornothology archive and start publishing entries around individual birds - bringing material together from a number of specific sources.
Each of these examples and many hundreds of other such examples, lends itself to highly customised, easy to produce, and maintin tools created by and for the content author.
# On top of wiki
Wiki has long enabled content-authors to create and organise their content, HyperCard was a well executed example of doing the same thing for software. Hypercard in Wiki aims to bring these together to address the need of authors and small communities to maintain a plurality of authroing-tools within a shared federated space.
We want to build on top of the collaborative features that have been developed in federated wiki and the affordances provided by modern CSS and WASM, in order to: - Fork Not Install - Plurality in Everything - Code as Culture - Beauty and Spectacle
# See - LiveWiki Features