BiLinks, the inclusion of wiki-lists on the wiki-node
Just made a longer comment on BiLinks, but got: “Nichts wurde geaendert”. Wie schade. .. Fridemar.com (OpenID)
MattisManzel:
Hi Friedemar. I moved your text above from my Agenda which actually is for my “Agenda” - and might be included elsewhere (see WikiNetAgendas) - here into the “talk” which is never included elsewhere and which is good for local talk.
I dont’t quite understand “Nichts wurde geaendert”, I never got it anywhere. On what page did you get it using what browser?
I remember when you came up with the BiLinks idea. It was on a WikiNode. I liked it, I probably didn’t quite understand it but did something else rather spontaneously then that semt to me to have a similar effect. You wanted to have “likely” neighboring wikis listed was my impression. On the wikis I care for there are wiki-nodes. On them you find a section telling what center-wiki the respective wiki has a home page in. Usually a wiki has a home page in the center-wiki of the wiki-hive it sits in for the working language it uses (but there can be more center-wikis). For my personal wiki it is OddWikiCenter:MattisManzelWiki. The center-wikis have a wiki-list (OddWikiCenter:WikiList). What I did was to include the wiki-list into the wiki-node. That means every wiki has a list of “potential” neighbors included into its wiki-node telling what other wikis are sitting in the same wiki-hive using the same working language. See the WikiNode here.
There are “topical” center-wikis as well. An example: the hack-Babel-wiki (KaboWiki:HackBabel/FrontPage) which gathers wikis from different wiki-hives about hacking language. If a wiki has a home page in the hack-Babel-wiki the wiki-list of the hack-Babel-wiki (KaboWiki:HackBabel/WikiList) gets included into the wiki-node of the wiki resulting in more “possible neigbors” to be automatically listed (and to be automatically updated too btw). Example kabo-wiki-hive / slang-wiki: wiki-node (KaboWiki:Slang/WikiNode). This wiki-node includes the wiki-lists of two center-wikis: The kabo-wiki-center-en (for the kabo-wiki-hive the slang-wiki sits in) and the hack-babel-wiki.
Center-wikis have a day-page-set wiki-list (and thus put out a wiki-list-feed) and they do seriously try to be a common platform for some kind of wikis. If not both I list them under “other wikis”.
However, any way of moving related wikis closer to each other is good for OneBigSoup. BiLinks do so and therefore I like the idea.