Spatial Wiki 2 - Research

With the Spatial Wiki Objectives in-place it's time to look around for the tools that we'll use.  I'm already familiar with MediaWiki and the various tools on the spatial side (these will be discussed in subsequent posts), but what I'm missing is any knowledge of how they can be linked together ... specifically any standard ways to code spatial metadata in a wiki page, and spatial extensions to MediaWiki that might already do what is required.  So, some quick Google searching on things like "spatial wiki" and "geo wiki" leads me to:

The Computational Geowiki: What, Why and How, this is an on-line paper with lots of good ideas about what a geowiki should do.

Geographical Coordinates in Wikipedia, this is the starting point for how coordinates are managed in Wikipedia, especially via various templates.  See also the Style Guide for Geographical Coordinates.

See the next article on Server Setup