Tango.info wiki calendar

As of 2011-06-19 the plan is to phase out the wiki based calender system.

Overview

Each event in the wiki calendar gets an article with the article title in the format "When_Where_What". The article creator is the event owner. Defined as the first editor in the article history.

current implementation, see: add event

format

The event should maybe be sendable via SMS, SMS length is 160 char, twitter.com restricts to 140 char.

• max length of title (current: 32+8+64= 104)
  • When: 32 char e.g. 2007-12-28T1300--2008-01-02T2000
  • Where: 8 char e.g. DEBER-AZ
  • What: currently restricted to 64
• other values
  • Who: 8 char (username, article creator/ event owner)

When

• Date in international format, subset of ISO 8601
  • YYYY-MM-DD - single day event, e.g. 2007-12-24 (10char)
  • YYYY-MM-DD--DD - multiple days event, e.g. 2007-08-24--26 (14char)
  • YYYY-MM-DD--MM-DD - multiple days event, accross month, e.g. 2007-08-28--09-01 (17char)
  • YYYY-MM-DD--YYYY-MM-DD - multiple days event, accross year, e.g. 2007-12-28--2008-01-02 (22char)
  • planned
    • 2007-12-28T1300 (15char)
    • 2007-12-28T1300--2008-01-02T2000 (32char)

Where

• geocode
  • country, ISO 3166-1 code, e.g. AR - Argentina
  • city UN/LOCODE, e.g. ARBUE - Buenos Aires
  • venue tango.info location code, e.g. ARBUE-CS - Club Castel in Buenos Aires
  • geographic coordinates? mixed with less precise code?
    • DD.dddddd[N/S]DDD.dddddd[E/W] (=21 digits)

What

• ...
  • keywords (need more definition)
    • festival
    • marathon
    • milonga
    • practica
    • lesson
      • class (?course)
      • workshop/s,
      • seminar
      • one-to-one "private" lesson
    • show (=performance)
    • start, end
    • outdoor
  • description (optional)

examples

single day events

• 2007-08-14 deberbp001 show Sebastian Chantal
• 2007-08-17 DEBOM Astillero
• 2007-06-30 DEKAE Otros Aires
• 2007-10-17 DEBER-OB workshop Gaia y Mecha - Frauentechnik

addtional time support in the future

• 2008-12-28T1200--1400_DEBER-RO_class
  • 2008-12-28_1200--1400_DEBER-RO_class
• 2008-12-28T2000--2330_ARBUE-CS_milonga
• 2008-12-28T2200--29T0030_ARBUE-AM_milonga
  • 2008-12-28_2200--29_0030_ARBUE-AM_milonga

multiple day events

• 2007-02-01--05 USARB Festival Ann Arbor
• 2007-03-20--25 ESGRX Festival Granada
• 2007-06-28--07-01 FRPAR Festival Paris
• 2006-08-17--27 ARBUE Campeonato Mundial
• 2007-05-25--28 DEBER festival
• 2007-12-07--2008-01-06 ITROM Festival Roma
• 2008-05-24--25 DEBER-IW workshops mit Irmel Weber
• 2007-10-04--07 DEBER-NU workshops Cristina y Homer

metatable

Articles with the above mentioned format are stored in a metatable. The metatable currently stores

• pageid
• dtstart (When - start)
• dtend (When - end)
• geo (Where)
• the wiki page title

dtstart, dtend currently only handles dates, time can be added later.

fields that might be added in future

• type (festival, milonga, workshop, workshops, class)
• text (rest text)
• user_creator
• dt_created

todo

keywords

• figure out which keywords to use:
  • milonga, show/performance, workshop/s, festival, marathon
  • start, end, cancel
  • outdoor

repeated events

• add support for repeated events

see also

• ical