From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkwqKsWfFCk-NK99S77R2v1JorVCnpzXUA <Dave@web>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:48:08 +0000 (-0400)
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+Has anyone experimented with pulling commits from an external ikiwiki into your own?
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+I ask because I've just read a great article about Federated Wikis.
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+Here's the link.  http://hapgood.us/2014/11/06/federated-education-new-directions-in-digital-collaboration/
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+...I probably won't be able to post this because of the link.  Let's see.
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+Anyway, the author opens with the idea that good ideas are often lost or delayed for years because of we don't communicate as well as we could.  He presents an example: Arthur C. Clarke speculating about GPS over a decade before Sputnik.
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+He goes on to present the idea of a federation of wikis.  Note: 'federation' is used as a technical term here: cf. email or Google Wave.
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+I for one am persuaded by his article, because wiki federation is an idea I've had before!
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+With ikiwiki, couldn't it work just by adding external wikis as remotes and selectively merging from them?
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+Cheers,
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+--Dave