Topic: [[t:wiki]]\\
Index: [[wikis]]

====== Requirements for a wiki ======
if we want to support a living [[t:knowledge commons]]. This relates to my theme on [[t:connecting useful knowledge]].

//(Material first written by [[https://www.simongrant.org/|Simon Grant]], December 2020. If you want to help develop this, please e-mail me.)//

//(transcribed and adapted for DokuWiki, April 2022)//

Start with the [[wiki:requirements-introduction|an introduction]] — my list of requirements follows below, each elaborated on a separate page.

===== The ones I see as essential =====

  * a powerful, semi-automatic cross-domain [[backlinking system]] — existing wikis do backlinks, but only within their own instance
  * [[semantic links]] — very few wikis do this well
  * [[metadata separation]] from page content — this is currently confused
  * [[no categories]]; these are unnecessarily confusing — normal pages with semantic links
  * [[access control]] — some but not all wikis do this
  * [[edit history]] and reversion — widely implemented already
  * basic [[web compatibility]] — not consistently done
  * decent options for [[straightforward editing]]

===== Important but less essential =====
  * federated user [[browsing history]] — not just for one site or session
  * graphical rendering of [[page graph]] — because many people find this helpful
  * [[semantic search]] — to tie in with other semantic web tools
  * [[change notification]] — picking up a common feature of blogs
  * persistent [[author attribution]] — the better to know collaborators
  * small, controlled [[page class vocabulary]] — for easier learnability

===== Some nice-to-have features =====
  * [[drag and drop]] across sites — extending a feature of Fedwiki
  * [[commenting and suggesting]] — emulating Google Docs and others
  * [[fine-grained change]] indication
  * [[search and replace]] across the whole wiki content, or selected subspaces

===== Existing wiki systems I've referred to =====
Here's a list of links to the wikis I've looked at. They may of course have developed further since I looked.
  * [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]
  * [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|DokuWiki]] (the software used right here)
  * [[http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors|Fedwiki]]
  * [[https://massive.wiki/|Massive Wiki]]

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Here is a [[template:wr|template for adding other requirements]].

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===== How to contribute to these pages =====

If you are interested in collaborating on this, please let me know and I will give you access to this whole wiki-related part of my wiki.
===== Links to other articles =====

Please add right here any links to articles that cover the same or very similar ground to here.

====== Possible APIs / protocols ======

  * Straightforward https for latest version of page content along with last revision date
  * More detailed history etc. given in response to a request for overall metadata about page.
  * “give me that page as it was at this date-time”
  * preserved in  (but how demarcated? just characters?); also with date-time of last change within that portion

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====== Miscellaneous notes ======

  * Look up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map|Topic Maps]] in case that helps
  * Related talk on [[https://www.hylo.com/all/p/36706|Hylo]] and subsequent [[https://www.hylo.com/all/post/69045|ideas]].
  * Interesting [[https://github.com/eyss/h-wiki-back|Holochain development]].

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