what is the wiki-net / what is our wiki-net?
"physically"
The wiki-net consists of several pages on every wiki automatically gathering contents from other wikis which help you to find communities of interest for a given topic.
"philosophically"
The wiki-net is also an offer to wiki-communities to create stronger relations to each other in order to use synergistic effects by integrating certain rss-driven node-pages into their wikis to stimulate interaction.
wiki-neighborhood
It is based the assumption that wiki-communities are able to develop an idea about a "neighborhood" of wikis - topically, technically or structurally related wikis that an interaction with is more likely than with other wikis. These get collected on the wiki-node.
decentralization
The wiki-net is a cross-engine idea and entirely decentral. Every wiki-community is responsible for its part of the wiki-net called our wiki-net, all these together shape the wiki net.
dynamic selection
Communities make dynamic selections of the neighbors listed on their wiki-nodes. This selection is called our wiki-net and it triggers three rss-driven internal wiki-pages that are nodes to the "outer wiki-world".
wiki-net changes
The first is wiki-net changes. It shows the recent changes of the (selected) wiki-neighborhood and the recent changes of the wiki itself merged. You see a recent changes page for several wikis. It's like zooming out in a picture, the view is more wide-angle. Recent near changes was the old name for this page. The contents of this page tends to be confusing - as recent changes itself tend to be confusing.
wiki-net blogs (now called wiki-net faces)
The second is wiki-net blogs. It assumes that wiki-communities are able to write a common blog - a blog integrated in the wiki itself and automatically attached to the end of its home-page. On their blogs communities summarize what goes on on their wikis. The common blog is like a face to the outside. A new reader reads the last blog entries and knows about the wiki without having to dive into its recent changes. The blog is an act of politeness to the public, a help for the communities themselves to get aware of their own activities and it keeps the members of a community together. To put it simple: "A wiki-community without blog is like a band without gigs."
Similar to wiki-net changes the page wiki-net blogs merges the blogs of the (selected) neighbors and the blog of the wiki itself.
discussion
MattisManzel 2006-07-19 13:18:05
Made that up recently.
MattisManzel 2007-01-07 12:42:23:
I gave a lightning talk on 23C3: What is the wiki-net? See Mattis-Manzel-wiki: face / 2006-12-30, please.
MattisManzel 2007-06-02 18:32:10:
I layed out the wiki-net on some more wiki-hives.
obm-wiki-hive, good for wikis with an "open business models"-taste
kabo-wiki-hive, good for all kind of wikis. Note that the degree of bogus on a kabo-wiki might be measured and displayed on a map
diki-wiki-hive, currently good for experimenting with day-page-based wiki using timestamped day-pages in all day-page-sets
eArt-wiki-hive, good for wikis that are or that are about (electronic) art
Couldn't day-page-sets be made possible on Moin? The feed has to add new enties on top, that's what is required to include a wiki in the wiki-net. Thanks for taking a look.