Eek! I wish there were some way of noting that this wasn't the same as the Local Names system that we're making over at OneBigSoup..!
Because the system we're making- it's a standard data format for describing name spaces.
You could easily add to the Oddmuse:Local Names Extension, to make it "play nice" with the local names system.
That is, make it automatically generate a page that describes the namespace.
So for example, if you've bound "Alex" to "http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/", then this is the page you automatically generate:
http://purl.net/net/localnames/
NamesTable
Alex http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/
If you had more entries, you'd have:
http://purl.net/net/localnames/
NamesTable
Alex http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/
Lion http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/
CommunityWiki http://www.communitywiki.org/
…and so on and so forth.
That way, all the plug-ins for the format- they'll all work with each other.
Right now, we have a WordPress plug-in, written by MooKitty, and we have an IRC bot that relays LocalNames information.
We also have the LocalNames Server, which can traverse the LocalNamesNetwork for programs that don't want to do parsing and caching themselves. (Doesn't make sense, if you have 50 programs using local names, for them all to keep their own cache.)
If you make that namespace description, you won't necessarily be able to take advantage of the rest of the LocalNamesNetwork. But, at least the network will be able to take advantage of your definitions.
If you have 50 entries in there, and one was "Photographs", linking to your photographs collection, then people could just say:
Alex:Photographs
…and if they've bound Alex to their namespace description file, then that link will automatically point to the URL associated with "Photographs."
Based on data from here:
But this is interesting for other tools only for "indirect" stuff, right? Because for the particular Oddmuse itself, it doesn't matter, and other tools are mostly interested in what pages are found on the particular wiki – in other words:
It seems to me that you really want me to add this one:
http://purl.net/net/localnames/
NamesListPattern http://http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/$NAME
NamesList
→ insert output of http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=index;raw=1...
BTW, OneBigSoup added to InterMap and NearMap… 
Heh!
One step ahead of 'ya!
You can already do it! It's already in the LocalNamesFormat? spec, and in the implementations. 
It goes like this:
http://purl.net/net/localnames/ NamesListPattern http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/$NAME NamesList http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=index;raw=1
In fact, we've already made a description file for CommunityWiki: OneBigSoup:CommunityWikiLocalNamesDescription.
It works. Right now. It's been working for like a week or two now. 
Go to #onebigsoup, and type in ",ln AlexSchroeder", or make an XML-RPC call from Python:
import xmlrpclib server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy( "http://services.taoriver.net:9090/" ) print server.lookup( "http://onebigsoup.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/CommunityWikiLocalNamesDescription?action=raw", ["AlexSchroeder"], 1 )
You could even replace the URL with "http://lion.taoriver.net/localnames.txt", and get the same result. That's because my namespace defaults to CW's namespace. Basicly, "NearLink." I mean, NearLink, specificly, is what inspired this feature. I think it's the coolest feature of the system!
I don't know if you want the "indirect" stuff to be in the same namespace as, say, the wiki pages themselves.
But you could also mush it all up together:
http://purl.net/net/localnames/
NamesListPattern http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test/$NAME
NamesList http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=index;raw=1
NamesTable
Alex http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/
Lion http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/
CommunityWiki http://www.communitywiki.org/
Well-
If you just dd the LocalNames to the output of the index action, they're not going to get the URLs.
Because the URL's aren't on your wiki. They're not wiki pages. They're off-wiki.
You could put them in the namespace, and publish them in a mushed-up local names description file, but I don't think you could just put them in the title index, and have them link right.
It is as if Oddmuse always lists the pages on the wiki + one level of indirection via NearLinks. LocalNames is just the more general solution… 
Anyway, I later figured out why Oddmuse cannot generate a local names description file automatically: The information required is just not in InterMap and NearMap. From there, you can only get the URL linking to the list of pages of other wikis, not to their namespace URLs. And LocalNames is all also about namespaces linking to other namespaces. We'll just do what Lion suggested on the WikiChannel: Write a manual page, and use raw=1 to view it: LocalNamesDescription [1]
In the long-run, I envision LocalNames tables to be communal resources.
We'll have tables describing pretty much any set of things that people want to individually name by friendly identifiers.
Some things I imagine people with name with LocalNames:
Pretty much anything people would want to name.
I'm really eager to see this fit into the address bar.
Then I could just type local names into the address bar, and jump straight to the things that I care about.
Some pointers:
here is a lame test I tried, it's not working (but I'm not sure if it is because of my proxy or somehting else) I'm pretty sure it won't work from the website (for security reason I think), so you could try to save the page and open it locally if you have some time to loose…..
Wow! I had no idea! That sounds like the way!
I want to end up with an easy to use plug-in, to install it.