This concept arose from discussion about InterWiki (a usenet-like distributed network of Wiki servers).
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- An InterWikiMap provides a simple "inter-wiki linking" system, currently (as of November 25, 2000) working in three very different wiki implementations on over 10 separate sites, and also on the AdvoGato (non-wiki) site. See http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterWiki and http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterMap for more information.
Well, let's try again. I'm pushing to make
MeatballWiki publish its
InterWikiList (which can include trustable non-wiki entries too) so other wikis can suck it up. That would make
MeatballWiki the central nameserver for
InterWiki, more or less. Nothing fancy about it, really. Discussion to
http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterWiki. --
SunirShah
Ok, Cliff made the simple first step:
http://usemod.com/intermap.txt --ss
Raph made the second (much bigger step) of implementing
InterWiki on
AdvoGato. Very cool! --ss
MoinMoin has supported
InterWikiMap for a while now.
The TWiki software has a working
InterWiki plugin (as of the 15 March 2001 beta, see
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/InterWiki ) - it's now enabled on
http://twiki.org. I have been playing with it, and it's interesting how much easier it is to surf across a number of different Wikis and not really worry too much about which one you are in at the moment. Even this simple form of
InterWiki definitely moves things closer to a
WorldWideWikiWeb.
Is
WardCunningham planning on supporting
InterWiki on this wiki? It would be nice, since this is a branching off point for access to many other Wikis. --
RichardDonkin
NotOnThisWiki. WardsWiki has SisterSites instead.
Perhaps the features of
InterWikiMap and
WikiCategoriztion should be maintained externally as part of the local application accessing
InternetPages, particularly since users tend to have preferences in what they would like to see in these two features.
Has anyone heard of a
BrowserAddIn which deals with either of these?