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This is an old revision of SyndicatingWikka made by NilsLindenberg on 2005-10-26 13:12:42.
Syndicating Wikka Wiki
This pages is a stubI would like to collect on this page some thoughts about the development of advanced tools (a sort of API) to allow syndication of content and/or structure of a wiki.
There are already several ways of syndicating the content of a wiki running on Wikka:
- trough some of its built-in RSSInfo rss feeds;
- through the use of some dedicated handlers (like the /raw handler) -- see IncludeRemote for a possible use of this handler;
A Wikka API
It would be interesting to explore the possibility of extending these tools to include other handlers, producing output in different formats (XML, RSS, MM, raw text) to be used by external sites or services to syndicate the content of a wiki.A particularly interesting case would be that of wikis syndicating information from each other.
Consider for instance a meta-wiki (A) collecting information from a number of child-wikis (B,C,D).
(A) might use dedicated actions to:
- connect "live" to (B), (C) and (D),
- retrieve information from each of them through the use of dedicate handlers,
- process, format and display such information "locally".
An example of advanced syndication
For example, suppose (B), (C), and (D) possess a handler outputting a RSS feed with the number of new registered users per day during the last week. (A) could use an action to syndicate (B), (C) and (D), process the data available from such feeds, and use something like a built-in BarGraph graphic class to output a chart comparing the evolution of the number of users for each of these wikis.Possible applications
There are many possible uses of similar syndication tools to extract information from a wiki at different levels:- page content (e.g., the actual body of a page)
- page metadata (e.g., the last author of a page)
- wiki structure (e.g., the categories present on a wiki)
- wiki metadata (e.g., the number of pages on a wiki)
We just need to identify such uses and start designing dedicated tools.
Feel free to add here your thoughts/suggestions.
- Logically it's only a kind of division between generating content and displaying it. I.e. having a function like FetchContent() who sorts out the (acess-)rights and calls the other funcs who will make the content. And you've forgotten to mention wikiping NilsLindenberg
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