Wiki Whiteboard

Seems like a jolly good idea!

Hopefully the name is self explanatory - extending the text-based world of Wiki by allowing users to draw pictures.

Experimental plugin for JspWiki at http://dannyayers.com/2003/08/jspwiki/whiteboard.htm

Anyone know of others? Yes, twiki.org has this fully implemented: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TWikiDrawPlugin Yes, SnipSnap.org has this too http://snipsnap.org

What Should it Do?

IMO, a bit more than just freehand, but not so much that it takes time to learn...

• Multi-user drawing (obviously)
• freehand lines
• multiple colours
• text tool
• straight line tool
• simple shapes - squares, ellipses etc
• (ambitious?) - text tool labels as WikiCase sensitive hyperlinks
• pasting images (through upload)

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Doesn't MoinMoin have a drawing feature?

MoinMoin uses the Twiki drawing plugin.

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There are many collected notes on WikiWhiteboard at: http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiWhiteboard

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Have a look at http://tethys.croydon.ac.uk/democircle.nsf where we have a jave whiteboard as part of a wiki environment. Each whiteboard need a wiki title and you can use the text slot to add wiki links or create new pages.