When I saw Dan's prototype for "Recent Changes of Linked Pages", I was
thinking: What if this could be a personal setting, that doesn't have
to be available for everybody (if they don't want it). And what if
each user (who is a programmer) could program their own website based
on the Wikipedia contents, or based on any Wiki site for that matter.
This could be done if a website, such as Dan's
projectmosaic.org, only
contained the framework and made on-the-fly "web services" calls to
wikipedia.com for the contents of each page. Web services is a sort
of RPC (remote procedure calls) using XML over HTTP. One problem
might be that the suggested ads would have to be part of the contents
served by Wikipedia, or else Wikipedia would have to serve contents
without any exposure of ads. Perhaps this would be solved by only
allowing web services calls from logged-in users.
Has anybody tried a multi-level wiki based on web services? Is it a
good or bad idea?
If these general thoughts have too little to do with Wikipedia, where
should I rather post them?
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Lars Aronsson
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