[Developers] TiddlyWiki Cooker for Freebase

[Jim Pick]

Hi,

I'd like to announce my latest little hack.

It's an Acre app, and it lives here:

   http://tiddlywiki-cooker.jpick.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/

What it does is build a TiddlyWiki from scratch, by pulling all the bits 
out of Freebase.  You can see the recipe and ingredients here:

   http://tiddlywiki.freebase.com/

There are about 225 topics that make up the 'core' 2.4.1 TiddlyWiki 
recipe that I put together.

Using this core recipe, it should be possible to build additional 
recipes that add more content, plugins, etc. just by creating new topics 
and linking them together.

The TiddlyWiki community is a very active one, and there are hundreds of 
interesting plugins that can be put together to create all sort of 
wonderful 'vertical' applications.  There are hundreds of recipes that 
work with the standard cook.rb tool that could easily be ported over.

With this base infrastructure in place, I have a lot of ideas of things 
that could be done...

I'm very interested in developing a new type of 'tiddler' - one that is 
bound to a Freebase topic.  By implementing a new TiddlyWiki 'adaptor', 
it should be possible to have bi-directional syncing between the content 
in a TiddlyWiki and what is in Freebase.

Additionally, I am very excited about the possibility of using things 
like Martin Budden's MediaWikiFormatterPlugin and Tony Garnock-Jones' 
Synchrotron to build content-specific systems for authors to assist in 
synchronizing Wikipedia content with Freebase content.

This is just a start.  But I thought I'd announce it right away, in case 
anybody else is interested in playing with it too.

Cheers,

  - Jim