(2020-05-19) Mather A Web Of Wikis

Neil Mather: A web of wikis. Stian Haklev posted an interesting question on the Digital Gardeners telegram group: I’m curious how people feel about comments and interaction? And also interactivity between digital gardens in general (like paths connecting the parks of a city? :))

I can definitely see the appeal of backlinks between wikis, but only in an abstract sense at the moment. The utility is in how much it can facilitate networked thought. I guess for me it comes down to whether I see the utility in all of this connectivity on specifically my evergreen notes, as opposed to my stream posts.

Chris has talked enthusiastically about interlinking wikis (InterWiki) before (e.g. during the Gardens and Streams IndieWeb session), so that’s a good indicator that there’s something to it. For me, perhaps because my wiki is still fairly new, or maybe because I already get the interactivity goodness on my stream and my articles, it’s something I haven’t generally been that interested in for my wiki notes thus far. Stian has some use cases for which he would like the interactivity, and it feels like webmentions could go a long way to solving them.