MachineServices

A wiki with “machine services” is able to talk to other wiki and even other software.

Right now, wikis are predominantly made to be edited by other humans via HTML over HTTP.

Machine services are being implemented right now. See:

• WikiRPCInterface
• MoinMoin's implementation.

The interface is presently (2003-10-17) very limited. For example, you can’t quickly search one wiki for text from another wiki or program. (You could manually pull down every page, and search it’s text, but that’s murderous) by the present WikiRPCInterface.

Work being done NOW

See:

• BayleShanks is currently working on InterWikiSoftware. Very exciting stuff! I need to research it more.

The idea of Wiki:WikiSync is a half-step towards machine services. WikiSync is about using a relatively normal wiki from a laptop, by keeping a copy of all the pages of the wiki on the laptop, allowing the laptop user to read the wiki and make small edits while offline, then re-synchronizing when back online (uploading all the edits, downloading the changes in the real wiki that happened since the last re-sync, etc.).

See Also

MachineReadableWiki (may become obsolete as an idea) (Huh ? It’s on the Internet, of course it’s machine readable … more or less.) (Nah: I mean: Easy to read and interpret. You can read the page, without screen scraping. WikiVariables is an example of a specific type of MachineReadableWiki. But I think that MachineServices is a more important superset of MachineReadableWiki, and MachineReadableWiki isn’t all that important to isolate. It’s just a step from MachineModifiableWiki,… Not a useful distinction, worthy of a page, in most cases.)

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