After some gentle prodding from one of the philosophy job wiki’s users, I returned to the task of getting the job wiki to sort job listings according to the date and time of their last update. The wiki now sorts jobs from most recently to least recently updated by default. The trick was teaching SIMILE Exhibit to sort by date.
Archive for October, 2009
We recently launched our own philosophy job wiki to help the philosophical community keep track of academic job in philosophy. The community had maintained a wiki on a free wiki host, wikihost.org, for the past few years, which I found myself checking compulsively during my job search last year — not that it ever gave me anything but bad news. One big advantage of the new wiki is that it has an RSS feed (http://phylo.info/jobs/rss).
Phylo is built on top of two major open-source platforms: the Drupal content management system and the SIMILE family of JavaScript data management tools. At the moment, Phylo uses SIMILE’s Timeline on the main site and Exhibit on the new philosophy job wiki.
