Multiple bible version wikis

[Scott_Sauyet]

@Mark_S

It’s a simple, non-inspiring, by-chapter, non-shareable thing. But it keeps records of things like “last time read”.

Still quite interesting.

I also want to see these sorts of things to at least imagine how others might build on my work for their own uses.

@Mark_S

I’ve also got my annotate plugin in there, though I seldom use it. You wouldn’t need that for your verse-by-verse version of course. I also have an older clumsier system that used macros to annotate sections that I need to back out sometime.

Doing annotations is one of the extensions I definitely imagine having available. I would want users to be able to write some commentary, have it apply to any book, chapter, verse, or run of chapters/verses. (So perhaps one commentary might apply to John 3:16 and 1 John 4:7-8. But I haven’t spent any time yet (if ever!) trying to figure out how to do it.

[yan]

@Scott_Sauyet

You’re right that the titles would have to change. I might want that anyway for another reason: nicer permalinks. I would rather link to #Ezekiel-2_10 than the current #Ezekiel%202%3A10, and it would be easy to extend that to, say, #kjv-Ezekiel-2_10. I’m still contemplating this, because it would require adding a caption and an override to the ViewTitleTemplate cascade. While I do that in almost every wiki I create, I want this one to be as simple as possible. So I haven’t made the call yet.

If I do that with the titles, the only other concern is size. Each version of the bible adds approximately 8 MB of content to our baseline wiki. I’m curious to try that, to see how well it operates with two or three different versions. But I would worry a bit about performance.

I haven’t used it for any solutions myself but I wonder if namespaces (only documentation I could find) are a good solution?

You would just reverse the typical use of namespaces: Have the book/chapter/verse first, followed by the book they are from. So something like John 3:16/King James Bible. This would hardcode it in the title of course, which you may want to avoid.

It will also not be as sightly.

The books and chapters are the same (I think), so you would only need to use the name space as verse. That way, you would get a nice link to an all-verse view, but a specific link to KJV if you so wanted.

Practical example using the URL parameter: I open #John 3.16 (or however you lay out the URL), and then drill down into #John 3.16_King James Bible (which is tiddler John 3:16/King James Bible).