jekyll-wikilinks VS plots2

Just thought I'd share here with everyone that I just released [jekyll-wikilinks](https://github.com/shorty25h0r7/jekyll-wikilinks). With it, you can target a jekyll collection and the markdown files in it with double bracket [[wikilinks]] will be parsed to html.

Citizen science! It's great when people realize they can answer their own questions with observation and data, and for activism because data is a powerful story. One friend of mine started https://publiclab.org to feed this, and another is doing data journalism to highlight holes in the government's environmental data. https://www.muckrock.com/project/

My first contribution ever was to PublicLab's plots2 back in 2018. I had no idea what I was doing or what plots2 was. What attracted me was how welcoming they were (and still are) to first time contributors. With them: I opened my first PR, discussed in PR's conversation, and pushed the changes requested. Back then, that was a lot!

Hmm so to your first question: That pattern of selecting from a pre-populated list is often used with a tag or chip system where you can select and deselect one or more items from the list, something like this: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/6026 in this case the search CTA acts as the final decision to search while the selections are populating the search criteria. It sounds your system design is a bit different though. Sounds to me like an issue of heuristics of UI https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ the third heuristic states:

Maybe public lab would be a good home? https://publiclab.org/

https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 A collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! balloon