UnifiedRecentChanges

UnifiedRecentChanges, a feature that is commonly implemented, is the ability to join the RecentChanges list from several wiki, and bind them together into one presentation.

UnifiedRecentChanges is frequently abbreviated to “URC,” because it is such a basic element of wiki.

Possibilities

Users Maintain Unification List

Generally, you make it so that users themselves can maintain the list of wiki that have their changes unified.

Multiple ways of Unifying RecentChanges: RSS, XML-RPC

There are a few ways to gather up changes from wiki.

• RecentChangesByRss (IdeasToPlace #87) - Wiki that support RSS can have their RecentChanges culled.
• XmlRpcWikiInterface - Yet another way to get at the list of RecentChanges.

Generalizing to All Chronologies

You can generalize the idea of unifying RecentChanges to unifying all sort of chronological notes.

You could say, “Overlap threads A, B, and D for me, as a chronology.”

(This also suggests IdeasToPlace #89, GraphicChronologyVisualization.)

Hide

You could make it so that you could hide particular pages. You have a “hide” link next to each page, and then if you click on it, that page never appears again on your Unified``RecentChanges page.

Implementations

This table is very very incomplete. URC is a frequent feature. If your favorite WikiEngine isn’t listed here, please update it.

Activity

MoinMoin: I’ve done some work to implement this feature on MoinMoin. I keep notes on it on the MoinMoin:MacroMarket page. – LionKimbro

I’ve just stumbled across http://recentchanges.net/ … it seems to be (?) UnifiedRecentChanges for a few wiki using the Wikka engine. – – DavidCary 2004-12-16

Terminology

URC - an abbreviation for Unified Recent Changes.

Contributors

LionKimbro

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