''A wiki can be more than a wiki with wikizens '' -- ThinkingOutLoud DonaldNoyes 20050728 ---- A wiki implementation that incorporates functionality increasing usefulness. (This is meant to apply only to a special class of wikis and is not a suggestion for this wiki.) A wiki in this new class of wikis should allow for interaction of not only users, but also that of other validated processes. In this way the potential and value of every page will be raised. It would include a new P''''''ageClass. These would be pages which have been authored to be accessible by processes as well as users. Control of access would be via a server which has enabled multiple page serving mechanisms. A P''''''ageClass would exist where other than user access is not allowed (U''''''serOnly served via HTML pages to Internet browsers). Interactions between the server and external processes could be speeded by the serving via zipped files of the accessible data. This would enable the construction of the future W''''''ikiElevator. This is only one class of pages which would result in additional functionality, making a WikiWithMoreThanUsers. -- DonaldNoyes ''I think what you want is a PeerToPeer network then, which allows more entry points for other processes to act on the WikiWeb.'' ---- Seems like the WikiWikiWeb already falls into that category. Wiki pages are already simple enough that a number of scripts(/processes) extract information from them. (See MoreAboutExtraScripts.) The scripts don't have to be hosted locally, either; see AutoPcn. Could you give an example of what you propose? The only difference I can see between the WikiWikiWeb and a WikiWithMoreThanUsers is that the latter has a form of AccessControl. ---- It would have normal access abilities with or without sign-ins and passwords at the Wiki's preference, but would also provide access to pages to agents as packed or zipped files containing all of the pages in a given Information space or Category. Access control would not be essential (but would probably be preferred by some wikis) to the success of this class of wikis. Besides serving pages, WikiWithMoreThanUsers would have features available due to additional tasks performed upon the information represented by its pages and programmed analysis of its pages and the mental processes and methods employed by the user or authors of the page. The results of a whole range of statistics and information about the wiki would be made permanently available. It would be a NextGenerationWiki and would not require the creation of user scripts or plug-ins to the browser. The WikiWithMoreThanUsers would provide the ability for processes such as C''''''ompatibleWikiSearchAgents and CompatibleWikiPageAndContentAgents to access the PagesData in different chunks. Initially large segments of pages (to accumulate eventually or even in one chunk, all the pages at a given I''''''nstantOfTime ) then incrementally in chunks representing the pages changed between Two I''''''nstants of Time. The Agents could then perform whatever searches and content analysis and classification as deemed necessary for entity (be it something like a W''''''ikiGoogleClone or another wiki or C''''''onfederationOfWikis, or even an ambitious user or user's group). The WikiWithMoreThanUsers would add to its processing tasks whatever classifying, analyzing and indexing tasks as it would deem its users might find useful and make the results available as menu button or selection items in addition to the familiar edit, find page, and save options available on present wikis. This WikiWithMoreThanUsers would be a A''''''utomatedIntelligenceWiki, with the server performing some Instantaneous as well as TimedAndScheduled Processes. As an A''''''utomatedIntelligenceWiki it might include some or all of these: * Processes for Notification of Users and P''''''rocessingEntities (at one or more scheduled times each day, as scheduled weekly or as scheduled monthly) ** That a user-specified page has changed (in the P''''''ageChangeNotificationSummary) ** That a new page has been created. (in the N''''''ewPagesSummary) ** That a page has been deleted or moved to archive (in the A''''''rchivalSummary) ** That a new category has been created (in the N''''''ewCategoryNotificationSummary) ** New Categories which have been assigned to a page or pages. (In the P''''''ageChangeNotificationSummary) ** ... * Processes for analysis and rating ** A series of ratings for each changed page (In the P''''''ageChangeNotificationSummary) *** Number of times accessed *** User Rating (0 to 10) calculated to an average. [8.51 would be a high rating] ** A way of indicating *** a page has reached a certain rating level *** a page contains a certain keyword or series of keywords *** a P''''''ageContentClassification (according to a N''''''extGenerationClassificationSystem) ** ... * Processes for dispatch of of page content ** According to D''''''eliverableSpecification *** According to P''''''ageContentClassification or Category *** According to presence of key word or words in content or title *** Pages changed between two dates *** Pages added between two dates *** Version of a page on a specified date (end of day) ** ... * Specification Determinants ** For Users and Agents *** Standard (normal) Browser format (html) *** Selection of one of a number of optional prepared types (Flat, Zip, or specially encoded) *** ... * Federated ** Special arrangements or ExtendedLinks between its pages and with other entities *** http://donaldr.noyes.com/WikiTest/G3P_WikiWithMore.htm * etc ... -- DonaldNoyes ---- Use with: WikiWithMoreThanPages, NextGenerationWiki, KeepingTrackByArtifactories ---- CategoryWiki