From e1101d121f404fd1556029bec3b1c8f723bd9f51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkwqKsWfFCk-NK99S77R2v1JorVCnpzXUA" Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 11:48:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] --- doc/forum/Federated_wiki__63__.mdwn | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Federated_wiki__63__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Federated_wiki__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/Federated_wiki__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..16c207207 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Federated_wiki__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Has anyone experimented with pulling commits from an external ikiwiki into your own? + +I ask because I've just read a great article about Federated Wikis. + +Here's the link. http://hapgood.us/2014/11/06/federated-education-new-directions-in-digital-collaboration/ + +...I probably won't be able to post this because of the link. Let's see. + +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. + +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. + +I for one am persuaded by his article, because wiki federation is an idea I've had before! + +With ikiwiki, couldn't it work just by adding external wikis as remotes and selectively merging from them? + +Cheers, + +--Dave -- 2.39.5