 Also, why aren't Wikis #Fediverse-enabled by default? I'd really like to follow certain articles on #Wikipedia, for example. If you must, it could be following something like @Fediverse@en.wikipedia.org but interpreting the actual URL to the article like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse as the actor's primary identifier would be so much better. Well, either would be better than not being able to follow at all... 11 comments
 @J12t as a fallback, you can already follow articles through Atom feed. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fediverse&feed=atom&action=history  @J12t Fully agree. And folks like @legoktm are making the first steps by leading on adding in rel=me --but hoping next steps are coming... cc: @wikipedia @J12t You can craft an RSS or Atom link to wikipedia changes, but it's pretty noisy. It'd be nice to have some kind of de-bounce, so you get updates at most every N hours/days/etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Syndication I'm old enough to remember back when people were playing with "Blikis". It always felt like a natural idea to me: you have a body of thoughts you're working on (notes, longer essays, etc.) and every once in a while you publish an update or new-article notification to your timeline. @davepeck Bliki is new to me. Martin Fowler, huh. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/WhatIsaBliki.html Interesting. @J12t Yeah. And by far the wildest bliki I’ve come across in my web wanderings is https://gwern.net  @J12t For something like Wiki updates, it may be most appropriate to use a protocol like Linked Data Notifications (https://www.w3.org/TR/ldn/) to notify people that an update has occurred without distributing the substance of the update or the fully updated page. LDN is based on ActivityStreams. It would be within scope for the SWICG to define the process for publishing and interchanging with ActivityPub. |
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@J12t So, that you get the article in your timeline, every time it gets edited?
That could happen quite often given the fact that WP is mentained with automatic tools for cosmetical updates in part.