=== what is the wiki-net / what is our wiki-net? === '''[[http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/WikiNet/HomePage|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 <> <
> Made that up recently. MattisManzel <>: <
> I gave a lightning talk on 23C3: ''What is the wiki-net?'' See [[http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/MattisManzel/2006-12-30_Face|Mattis-Manzel-wiki: face / 2006-12-30]], please. MattisManzel <>: <
> I layed out the wiki-net on some more wiki-hives. * '''[[http://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/FrontPage|obm-wiki-hive]]''', good for wikis with an "open business models"-taste * '''[[http://s4560.gridserver.com/cgi-bin/wiki2/FrontPage|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 ;) * '''[[http://s4560.gridserver.com/cgi-bin/diki/FrontPage|diki-wiki-hive]]''', currently good for experimenting with '''d'''ay-page-based w'''iki''' using timestamped day-pages in all day-page-sets * '''[[http://s4560.gridserver.com/cgi-bin/eArt/FrontPage|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.