https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33373
Web browser: ---
Bug #: 33373
Summary: Receiving/Sending Pingbacks/Trackbacks/Refbacks
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: bret...@yahoo.com
Classification: Unclassified
Hi,
I'd like to see a means by which Mediawiki can communicate with other wikis,
Mediawiki or otherwise, and for that matter blogs and discussion forums, with a
type of linkback (pingback, trackback and/or refback) system (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback for overview) for sharing page or
category information. The system might be open/blacklist (good luck with the
spam) or white-list based.
Given the more transient yet abiding nature of wikis, it might be helpful to
propose/implement an extension to the pingback/trackback specifications which
allows for the "undoing" of a link, but otherwise I think the specifications
ought to be sufficient (not to mention interoperable with existing blogs,
etc.): http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback or
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/trackback/specification.html .
USE CASES (RECEIVING)
1) A simple enhancement to "What links here" backlink pages, allowing the
external sites to be accessible in this more subtle (but potentially more
exhaustive and extensible) fashion.
(The remaining cases may be even more requiring of whitelist approaches where a
finite number of sites are envisioned, though with a possibility for different
sites to perhaps be put in a request queue, where they request to be added as
an allowable site.)
2) Topic-sensitive Web Ring where wiki article pages can link to the same
article on another wiki, blog, or discussion forum.
3) A category aggregator wiki whose category pages can be allowed to include
automated links to category pages from different wikis, blogs, or discussion
forums, with orange-colored links or omissions in place of correspondingly
non-existent categories:
a) Extra automated information on the page: "Visit this Foo category at the
ABC wiki", "Visit this Foo category at the QQQ blog", "Visit this Foo category
at the JKL discussion forum"
b) Embedded subcategories: "Foo subcategory1 (ABC wiki)", "Foo subcategory2
(XYZ wiki)", etc.
c) Embedded article: "Bar article1 (ABC wiki)", "Bar article2 (XYZ wiki)",
etc.
USE CASES (SENDING)
1) Ability for external URLs to be added to wikis which facilitate formal
pingbacks/trackbacks at the targeted site, allowing them to link back to the
wiki in a manner more trustworthy than refbacks.
Thanks!
--
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are on the CC list for the bug.
_______________________________________________
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
