Interwiki Workshop

Tue, Oct 18, 1:30pm-5:00pm

For discussion about the workshop or about this page, please use InterWiki Workshop discussion. Also, we took copious notes together - see InterWiki Gobby Session.

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Introduction

This workshop will be an informal discussion of ideas for connecting wikis to each other and to other media, both technically and socially. We're not sure yet exactly what we're going to talk about, because we want to see what the attendees are most interested in; if you're thinking of attending, please get in touch with Lion Kimbro, Helmut Leitner, and Bayle Shanks, so that we can ask you what you want to discuss and plan the workshop around your interests. You can also just leave a note on the page InterWiki Workshop Discussion.

Here's some potential topics:

• Linking between wikis (examples: InterWiki link prefixes, NearLink, SisterSites, LocalNames)
• Inter-wiki page interchange
• RecentChanges syndication (example: RecentNearChanges)
• Distributed wiki engines
• Wiki markup standard(s)
• Interoperability between wiki and other software
• Software projects for wiki interoperability (examples: OneBigSoup, WikiGateway)
• Standards relevant to wikis (examples: ModWiki/RSS, Atom, WikiXmlRpc)
• Social and information architecture initiatives to connect wikis (examples: TourBus, WikiNode, SwitchWiki)
• Social standards.

If we have enough people, we might split into multiple discussion subgroups with different topical foci.

Who

This workshop is oriented towards people who are already wiki "experts" and who are involved (or want to be involved) in InterWiki initiatives.

Confirmed participants:

If you want, add information about yourself like the wiki communities and wiki engines that you are most comfortable with, or topics of interest to you

• Bayle Shanks
• communities: CommunityWiki, MeatballWiki
• engines: OddMuse
• interests/proposals: interoperability
• Lion Kimbro
• HelmutLeitner
• communities: MeatballWiki + some German communities
• engine: ProWiki
• interests: interoperability, community, technical and social standards
• MaxVoelkel
• how to integrate Wikis using RDF and REST

Other possible participants

If you are on the list and you are definitely attending the workshop, please move yourself to the "confirmed participants" list!

• Hans Wobbe
• TedErnst

The agenda

The workshop will probably go something like this:

• Before the conference, the organizers and attendees get in touch and get a rough idea of what will be discussed. Attendees might suggest "background materials" that they think everyone else should read beforehand (although reading will be voluntary).
• At the conference, the workshop organizers briefly introduce the workshop, throw out some proposed discussion topics, and introduce those topics.
• We go around the room, and everybody introduces themself. During each introduction, people also mention any projects that they think other attendees should know about; and they also briefly describe what they'd like to discuss. We'll make a list on a whiteboard (maybe an electronic one) of all of the projects mentioned and all the suggested discussion topics.
• If it seems useful, we split into subgroups with different topical foci.
• We discuss the topics on our list.
• Before and after the session, people will mill around and chat and meet each other.

Goals/why you should come

At the end of the workshop, we will each have a better idea on who is working on InterWiki stuff, and on what projects and standards are out there today. People who already work together on InterWiki projects will be able to chat together in person, and people who don't might start new collaborations. In the discussions we'll pick some projects and try to hammer out some of the issues in those projects; with luck we might even solve those issues, thereby advancing the projects. Also, we'll each get to hear a lot of neat ideas from everyone else that we might not otherwise have heard.

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