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WARNING: This post is very technical and therefore only for those who care about such stuff.

Today I tackled an interesting problem - that being the integration of user accounts/login between PwlMMO and MediaWiki. This will allow users of any Pwl MMO to have linked pages & edits in an associated Wiki. The following post discusses the method used for this integration… Continue reading →

Just finished a set of interesting code! A wiki for Norwegian Rock & Pop (part of the Virtual Rockheim project PWL is working on), built from some core encyclopedic data we’ve gotten to start with (well the first 1127 people/bands so far) in XML. PwlWikiBot was written in C# (using the wonderful free DotNetWikiBot class) which converts all of the data to an editable Wiki format (while protecting the source material from user-editing - though they can ‘Add’ to any page), and cross-references Artists, Labels, and Decades of music.

I’m planning to cross-reference this to some other website resources to enhance the core data before it is opened up to the public for use/enhancement. My key goal is to automate Geo-referencing of the data and combination with the Google Map/Earth work that has been done thusfar!