Tango.info wiki calendar

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

• max length of title (current: 34+8+100= 142, in form 34+8+64= 106)
  • When: 34 char e.g. 2007-12-28T13:00--2008-01-02T20:00
  • Where: 8 char e.g. DEBER-AZ
  • What: 100 char (restrict to 80?, the form [1] currently restricts 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
    • 2007-12-28T13:00 (16char)
    • 2007-12-28T13:00--2008-01-02T20:00 (34char)

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?

What

• ...
  • keywords (need more definition)
    • festival
    • marathon
    • milonga
    • practica
    • class (?course)
    • show (=performance)
    • workshop/s,
    • start, end
    • outdoor
  • description (optional)

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

• 2008-12-28T12:00--14:00_DEBER-RO_class
  • 2008-12-28_12:00--14:00_DEBER-RO_class
• 2008-12-28T20:00--23:30_ARBUE-CS_milonga
• 2008-12-28T22:00--29T00:30_ARBUE-AM_milonga
  • 2008-12-28_22:00--29_00:30_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