Talk:Locally Produced

Hooo boy, you are going to hate me forever, but ...

What do you thing of the idea that:

The definitions of local, source etc all be stuck on a separate page and these words always be links to that page;

Sounds good to me. We already have a glossary page so its just a question of adding those words and then changing the pages so that those words are links. --Rachelm 22:20, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

The Athena Template at the top might be different for the different major catagories, such as food / hardware / household such that the choices are major sub-catagories (eg produce / meat / grains /other) and one back ling to the main food page which would have the meta-catagories. --Coordinator 21:08, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Not so sure about this one. Generally it isn't good to change menu bars on users. Here is the code to add a link to a category:

Category:{name} E.g. Category:Food_and_Drink Now I just have to figure out how to get it to work with out showing 'Category' and the underscores.

--Rachelm 16:54, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Ok, figured it out: {alternate text} E.g. Food and Drink --Rachelm 22:46, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

A Comment
I have never added a comment on a wiki and I wanted to do so. Thank you --Coordinator 21:08, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Buy Local Guide
How about instead of "the farm gate" we put the BLG link? this provides the precise address / location as well as linking the spc map, so it is more useful than "farm gate", solves both the clutter and politics problem --Coordinator 21:19, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

I still don't love it - generally links should say what it is they are going to. So under 'Available at:' we would put:

-Buy Local guide -Parkdale Farmer's Market etc.

But then that doesn't really make sense because the tomatoes aren't available at the buy local guide.

However, I can live with it. Especially if we put -farm gate (see the Buy Local Guide)

That totally works for me --Coordinator 22:33, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Are we going to do this for the farms that don't have a website too? They'll end up with 2 links to the buy local guide (farm name and under available at). I'm ok with that...I just wanted to be sure.

--Rachelm 22:20, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Sounds like 2 links or farm name is simply not a link ... the latter preserves the format and simplifies 'the rules' --Coordinator 22:33, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

I like it - if the farm doesn't have a web site then the farm name is not a link --Rachelm 16:56, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

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