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ExtendedRecentChanges
MeatballWiki | RecentChanges | Random Page | Indices | CategoriesExtendedRecentChanges are RecentChanges entries of remote wiki pages that are shown in the local RecentChanges. This allows a wiki community to keep track of these pages. The idea is that the focus of attention is extended over the physical borders of the wiki instance. Adding new remote pages is done for the whole wiki and not only in personal preferences. So the wiki community has to define what the logical border of the wiki is.
As such pages show up in the RecentChanges of the two wikis this should allow communication between wiki communities which is very difficult right now.
FailingRevolution tries to explain the motivation of this feature.
It should be very easy to provide PersonalRecentChanges? with the same technology.
- It is also relatively easy to implement such changes in a personal wiki that receives the needed Recent Changes via an RSS feed. Would this alternative not allow TheIndividual to create a tailored solution to their need without necessarily having to involve the whole community in deceisions regarding 'logical borders' and 'scope' (something that tends to be quite different in the view of each individual). -- HansWobbe
Implementation
I started an implementation that uses an central XmlRpc server to collect the changes and notify the wikis of new changes that are of their interest. See MoinMoin:AdoptedPages for details. -- FlorianFesti?
Wiki Embassy
Wiki communities could open an embassy page in neigboring wikis that do not support ExtendedRecentChanges. This page would serve as communication medium and be used like an WikiHomePage of an indiviuum but for the whole community.
This sounds quite similiar to UnifiedRecentChanges. -- StephenGilbert
It is. It is a special usage of filtered UnifiedRecentChanges. The difference is that I don't want a central UnifiedRecentChanges page but integrate it into the local RecentChanges. And I want the whole wiki to share the same selection of shown pages in the RC. I think that unfiltered UnifiedRecentChanges are not that usefull because the traffic get to high and you don't have a shared topic over all the watched pages.
The difference to UnifiedRecentChanges is more a semantic one than a technical. -- FlorianFesti?
CategoryWikiTechnology CategoryUnimplementedWikiTechnology CategoryIndexingScheme CategoryRecentChanges