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WYSIWYG Editing

Editing of pattern content should be open to newbs. This means no MarkDown required. Just a WYSIWYG editor such as CKeditor or TinyMCE (and many others) and in apps like WordPress and Blogger.

Complete Revision History

Every edit should be viewable - See EverNote, WikiPedia, Google Docs, GitHub etc.

Side Comments

As in Google Docs sidebar or Discussion pages in Wikipedia

Highlighting with Comment Bubbles

As in text and bubbles in Google Docs

Git-like Push/Pulls

As in GitHub - allow for separate forked and benevolent dictator branches

Allow for embedding of online editable vector images

As in Google Docs drawing

Allow for embedding of Images

Images retain copyright and licensing data

All text manipulatable via an API

As Google Apps Script – see, for example, programmability available for Google Docs https://developers.google.com/apps-script/service_document - virtually the entire database of documents can be updated with a few keystrokes.

Greedy Ontology

Will accept any and all categorization including LoC, Dewey, tagging, Dublin Core, BIM, CI/SFB, Feng Shui Trigrams, Maslow's hierarchy and whatever anybody else wants to throw at it

Hyperlinks up the Wazoo

This means that even the hyperlinks have hyperlinks or something. Newbs are highly encouraged and helped in learning the process to add links.

Peer Review Process

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review

Evidence-Based Research

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_practice

Links to Google Maps/Earth

Where is this evidence from? Where can I see it?

3D Gaming-environment Enabled

Using HTML5 and WebGL technologies

  • If we build APL Rev 2.0 as a WoW or SimCity environment then CA/OUP wouldn't have many legs to stand on. ;-)

Do No Evil

List of things we don't do

Build up the Commons

Things we believe build up Social Capital

Design our own Future

The tools we build are tools we can use to design the tools we build – and could help other disciplines as well

  • bonus points awarded for helping religions