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2006-09-29 WNServer

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MattisManzel:
Couldn’t someone blow out some key words how such technically could be realized? I have absolutely no clue and it all sounds so ridiculous without any attempt to say how to create a real implementation of it.

hmm. the parts on WikiNetChanges, WikiNetBlogs and WhoHelpsHerePages telling about who’s watching us could be included from a wiki-net-server-wiki. It’s an automatic wiki that is driven by the wiki-net feeds of wikis connecting to the wiki-net-server. When a new wiki appears in any of the wiki-net feeds coming in the wiki-net-server automatically creates three new pages on it. One for what other wikis currently have it on its wiki-net changes, one for wiki-net-blogs and one for other wiki’s who helps here? also having people listed on it that are on the “who cares here?” of the new wiki. From there we include the respective part into the pages.

So the wiki-net-server must receive wiki-net feeds and change an automatic wiki according to them. How to do that?

Notes from chat in irc #oddmuse:

The wiki-net looks like a wikilog aggregator at first glance but is integrated in the wikis themselves and - important - is driven by the communities, not by individuals. Everybody steers the ship, collective helicopter piloting so to say.

Obviously it’s simplier to pull the rss feeds from the wikis than to make the wikis push it to the server. Learning about the near-map is important.

make clear when talking about a wiki page and when talking about a concept.

To “enlist” a wiki, you need to enter its feed url.

To make the terminology better undrstandable add a noun “page”, “feed”, “subscription”, etc. When talking about pages on multiple wiki mention which page is on which wiki.

Packing up the feed into a wiki-net-feed and later untangeling it into different pages again seems uneffective.

The wiki-net idea is to make wikis poke each other a little like in blogosphere. It’s to (metaphore:) “feel the other’s gaze on your skin” - just that it’s not a vage feeling but a concrete wiki-page that everybody can look at and follow the link on it to the previously unknown stranger who’s gazing.

So it’s planetplanet for wikis? Or just for wikilogs?

http://planet.gnome.org/ is a great example of a planet setup. Feeding planetplanet a wiki changelog might be annoying.

Test: inserting the rss 2.0 feed of planet Debian into the page wiki-net blogs.

See mutante’s test of the planet-wiki-net for s23-wiki: wiki-net changes.


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