[projectvrm] Improving the wiki

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Fixing our VRM Development Work page 
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/VRM_Development_Work> is a big chore 
that I’d rather not take on all at once, or alone. But one simple thing I’d 
like to do (and can do myself) is put an outline up top that can work as a 
shortcut to the topics below. We have that now on our main page: 
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/>. In addition to organizing the 
page in a sensible way, it allows direct linking to subheads. 

In edit mode, the content outlining markup looks like this:

==Top Level==

===Next level down===

and so on.

Putting that markup on the titles of each section auto-produces the Contents 
outline at the top.

If I were to turn what we have on the Development Work page into an outline 
without additional editing, it would look like this under Contents at the top:

> SOFTWARE and SERVICES 
>       Intelligent Personal Assistants
>       Personal Clouds/PIMS (personal information management 
> systems/services)
>       Intentcasting
> 
> PRIVACY PROTECTION
> 
> DATABASES
> 
> MESSAGING
> 
> PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (aka PIMs; Personal Clouds, Stores, Lockers 
> and Vaults)
>       Transaction Management
>       Trust-Based or -Providing Systems and Services
> 
> SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES
> 
> INFRASTRUCTURE
>       Concepts
>       Hardware
>       Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols
> 
> PEOPLE
>       Analysts, Research organizations and Consultants
> 
> CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS
> 
> MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS


This wouldn’t be hard to do, but we would lose the color and other formatting 
in each section below. This is produced by this kind of markup in edit mode:

> {| style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0; border-width: 1px; 
> border-style: solid; border-color: #ccc; padding: 2px" align="left" 
> style="text-align:left;"
> |- style="color: white; background-color:#588F27; text-align: left;" 
> | '''SOFTWARE and SERVICES'''
> |- style="background-color:#f0f0f0; text-align: left;" 
> | '''Intelligent Personal Assistants’''


All that would be turned into this:

==Software and Services==
===Intelligent Personal Assistants===

But before I do that, I’d like to get input (or actual help) from Vroomers 
who are at least as adept as I am at wiki markup 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup>. (Which ain’t hard. It’s 
just lacking in a time-saving editor. Unless I’m missing something, which I 
probably am.)

Thanks,

Doc