Community Plugin Showcase on tiddlywiki.com

In the thread on @flibbles new TW5-graph plugin I suggested that we should feature it as a badge in the HelloThere tiddler on tiddlywiki.com. Now @BurningTreeC has released his resizer plugin which also a beautiful pieces of work.

These plugins will both be of interest to the vast majority of the community, and so I would like to feature them in a new showcase of community plugins/editions shown within one of the default tiddlers on tiddlywiki.com. We could either divide “Find Out More” into two sections, or perhaps replace the current “Community” tiddler. It’s easy to imagine something more complicated but the quickest way to get moving would be to use a grid of badges like the ones currently in the “Find Out More” tiddler. The criteria for including a plugin might include:

  • Of interest to a broad subset of the community
  • Actively maintained
  • Compatible with the latest version of TiddlyWiki
  • Recognised as the best plugin in its category or niche
  • Decent user documentation
  • Open source license

The goal is to encourage users to install plugins that they are likely to find useful.

We will also need a limit of say 4 plugins to be featured at any one time, and a ribbon to show alpha/beta/release (or equivalent wording).

@linonetwo I wondered if there might be data about popularity of plugins that can be extracted from the CPL?

We will need 560x315px thumbnail images and a brief descriptive sentence for each plugin, so @flibbles and @BurningTreeC might want to start thinking about that.

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How about if the Community tiddler added a new—and default—tab named “Of Note” where we can showcase plugins that meet these criteria and also recently released editions, themes, public wikis with interesting content or interfaces, possibly even links to forum topics of wide interest. This could have a recency bias, with new material simply replacing the oldest.

Of course the tab-set on Community is already pretty full, but it feels like the right place to put this. Maybe we could look to combine the Community Editions, Community Plugins, Community Themes, and Community Palettes into a secondary set of tabs under a common Community Resources tab?

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Great idea. I think that above(!) the featured plugins, there should be a link+note to links.tiddlywiki.com to inform (and emphasize) that that is our official store for community plugins.

Sure, I can throw together a collage image of different graphs, or at the very least an image of the splash page like TiddlyMap did. I’ll try and get this together in the coming week.

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That makes sense. The “Community” tiddler definitely needs an overhaul. I would like to explore using custom tab styling that makes the tabs larger, easier to read, and more colourful. I think we also might need to define more clearly which badges should go in “Find Out More” and which should go in the Community tiddler.

As ever, I appeal for help, both editorially and technically. You don’t need to know GitHub to help with the editorial aspect: you’d set up a TiddlyHost, make your changes there, let me know and I’ll merge the changes into GitHub.

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Oh we haven’t build it yet, CPL is still a static website… And I think currently nothing in tw community will collect statistic data.

If you want the data, I think there could be a tiddlywiki/feedback plugin, allow user opt-in the statistic. So plugin library can still remain static, let user’s computer upload the data.

I would think if links within an online wiki point to a specific address eg https://tiddlywiki.com/#SelectWidget or must it use a folder ? https://tiddlywiki.com/SelectWidget like static tiddlers, that most hosts collect statistics on the unique visitors to that address.

  • It may be quite easy to be able to capture and inject such statistics for display in a TiddlyWiki

Hi @jeremyruston ,

I’ve just released version 0.1.1 of the resizer plugin and would like to create a thumbnail for the showcase but am failing miserably :blush:

Are there people in the community interested in creating a thumbnail? I’d be very happy about anything!

Technically there is no difficulty, there are some opensourced statistic server program. We just need an official force to announce a canonical statistic plugin, otherwise no much people will use it.