Tango.info wiki calendar
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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 [1] )
- 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 t.i_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)
- keywords (need more definition)
examples
see a list of wiki event articles derived from the meta table http://wiki.tango.info/events/show3.php
single day events
- 2007-08-14 DEBER-BP 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