InterWiki is the idea of linking wikis together.
Historically, the term referred to having
one wiki, distributed across several servers; See:
DistributedWiki,
OneBigWiki (
SwitchWiki),
WikiWebTransferProtocol,
WorldWideWikiWeb,
MultiServerWiki
Over time,
InterWiki has come to mean
connecting existing wiki, of
various WikiEngine types, together.
The idea has expanded even beyond wiki: Connecting
all willing communication systems together into a gigantic mesh of software. See
IntComm wiki,
WebServices,
WebServicesDiscussion.
InterWiki organizing happens all over the web. Many wiki and mailing lists contribute substantially to
InterWiki efforts. Wiki include
MeatballWiki (
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballWiki),
CommunityWiki (
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community?RecentChanges), and the
InterWikiWiki (
http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/InterWiki/).
Not all
InterWiki work is technology work; Some of it is purely social (introducing sympathetic wiki communities to each other) - like the
TourBusStop project, some of it is standards based (
WikiNodes;
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=wikinodes+lionkimbro&d=74051118843292&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=e5345dbf,335521d ), some of it is legal. (
http://wikilegal.wiki.taoriver.net/)
Alas, two wiki – “Wiki Futures” and “Wiki Legal” – are offline as of 2008-03-11. In a couple of months, if they are still offline, please delete those delegations.
Work on
InterWiki technologies and conventions has been in effect for a long time now.
SisterSites and
InterWikiLinks have been around for a long time.
New linking technologies such as the
Many more technologies on the way.
- Page transfer standards, independent of wiki syntax, is underway. And a lot of work on a
It is clear that
InterWiki technology has been delivered, and is continuing to be developed, and will expand in the future.
The future appears to be
less Inter-Wiki and
more Inter-Net.
What has been called
wiki appears to be becoming the
document arm of P
ublicInternet Communication, meshing with threading friendly systems, blogs, identity services, resource sharing, and existing online communities.
See
InterWikiDiscussion
CategoryWiki CategoryInterWiki