The wiki-nodes-project aims to create a fabric among wikis which allows users to traverse “wikilandia”, the universe of all wikis via topically related links. The wiki-node makes part of the wiki-net.
Welcome to wiki-ohana . We try to pull the wiki family closer together here.
MattisManzel: Interesting wiki-node this one. Hi Christoph, you coined ’‘ohana’’ I read yesterday, a good idea.<br> On ’‘talk’’: I made talk and it even was already used for passing important information fast, maybe that fast that you do not even think where to put it but put it straight where most likely everybody will read it. That is one possible way to use talk. The information will not be of importance in a few days. New talk will add on top, old day entries will disappear in the lower part of the page and when it’s getting too long in a talk-archive page. Everybody can scroll down on talk but nobody has to as new day-entries add on top. That’s how I did it on ’‘talk’’ (formerly wiki-forum or forum) - the general talk, not on the dicussion-pages (also called talk). <br> Now Christoph adds a question likely leading to a new dicussion on top of the talk section of the wiki-node. Interesting. Thinking the way it is explained on (the general) talk - add new day-entries on top - that’s perfectly fine. And thinking about it it makes sense. Why scroll down to read newly added text here when you don’t have to on (general) talk? So I applied the principle of (general) ’‘talk’’ also to the page specific talk here - by making date headers and putting a day-stamp behind my Name. Answering to a topic already started yesterday or some days ago putting a day-stamp makes sense. Else the date-header tells. <br>
ChristophSauer: Could somebody explain to me what “WikiOhana on Center-Wikis” means? Everything else is quite intuitive for me except this element. I know i could look that up somhow, but you know, than it is not intuitive anymore :)
MattisManzel: On ’‘center-wiki’’: What the wiki-node is for a wiki a center-wiki is for a certain kind of wikis. I thought take for example city-wikis. There would be something to talk about they all have in common. They could exhange information on how to use wiki for a city, present new ideas to the city-wiki community, run a calendar of city-fests world-wide or events organized by city-wikis. Essential for a center-wiki is that different wikis of a kind have home-pages on it. So I made some center-wiki. The idea never took off, too different are the different engines and markkups and too much is it still a FrontLawn? in some wiki-founders’ heads rather than a wiki-mind. But this is pretty obvious about to change. So center-wikis will make sense soon. <br> Please, remeber that a wiki-community controlls its wiki-node. There is no central goup or such. I just happened to like Lion Kimbro’s idea of wiki-nodes and started to make many of them all over wiki-landia. They sometimes get mistaken as spam by WikiSquares? but mostly are accepted.<br> There is a touch of ’‘hierarchy’’ to center-wikis, I admit. Predefining what wiki is a center for others is not cool. It’s un-wiki. The body, the people, the creature, wikilandia itself creates and mofifies its internal structures. With advancing intelligence we will be able to map neighborhood, common authorship (like “show me a map of the two wiki-clouds xtof writes on Alex writes on”), even “center-wikiness”. A center-wiki will be a role a wiki takes and being a center-wiki will be dynamic as it’s transparent for all how good the wiki plays its role. So nevermind the center-wiki.<br> To even increase the complete confusion: I use center-wiki and wiki-center as synonyms. It showed when noding wiki-hives and making a bunch of center-wikis lately that - depending on the url - both versions, center-wiki and wiki-center are needed. In German wiki-Zentrum, the reverted “Zentral-wiki” hasn’t been needed up to now.
MattisManzel: I added wiki-creole to neighbors not seeing that it has been put as center-wiki already. If wiki-creole is a center-wiki it would have a page for wiki-ohana on it and try to gather other similar wikis. I’m not sure about the purpose of wiki-creole and wiki-ohana yet, but it seems rather wiki-ohana is a center-wiki. In any case wiki-index is a center-wiki. I didn’t treat it like that, sorry Mark.
For center-wikis I use the wiki-node instead of the feed + description. You can junp up in levels of center-wikiness like that. Start on wiki-grimoire: wiki-node.
I removed wiki-creole form “wiki-ohana on wiki-centers”, let’s treat it as a neighbor for now and see how roles develop.