Well, it should come as no surprise what I think of this: HOOORAYYY!!!!
Thank you Jeremy! I'll sign up as soon as I figure out a good wiki for it. Two notes: 1) The links at TiddlyWikiLinks currently don't seem to work. E.g clicking on federatial.com doesn't lead to that site. 2) There's something about Motovun Jack... and I cracked it ;-) <:-) On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 6:00:23 PM UTC+1 Jeremy Ruston wrote: > One of the obstacles we face as a community is that we don’t have a good > place for us to curate and share bookmarks to useful resources. Dave > Gifford has shown what's possible with his ToolMap, an invaluable community > resource. But it’s a huge challenge for any one person to keep an > undertaking like that up to date, let alone complete. > > So, I’m pleased to announce TiddlyWikiLinks, a community links aggregator > that allows us to collectively curate bookmarks: > > https://links.tiddlywiki.com > > The way it works is that multiple contributing editors each maintain their > own TiddlyWiki containing their bookmarks. These wikis are registered with > the system on GitHub, and then at intervals a script retrieves all the > links and aggregates them together into a new wiki. > > The above links are to a static rendering to help Google find things, but > the information is also available in TiddlyWiki format: > > https://links.tiddlywiki.com/wiki.html > > It’s easy to set up to be a contributing editor. The main requirement is > that bookmarks be kept as tiddlers tagged "$:/tags/Link" with an “url” > field containing the URL. So, for example, I’m “jermolene”, and all my > links are to be found at: > > https://links.tiddlywiki.com/contributors/jermolene/ > > My bookmarking wiki is here: > > https://jermolene-links.tiddlyhost.com > > If enough people volunteer to be contributing editors, we can spread the > workload and make something much more valuable than any of us could do > individually. I’d be happy if we had a handful of contributing link editors > making high quality bookmarks, but I think this system could be scaled to > at least a few hundred. > > If you’re interested, please reply here with the URL of your bookmarking > wiki and your choice of username. > > As ever, there’s a lot to do on the development side to take this forward: > > * Improving the styling (consider the current colour scheme and styling to > be a placeholder!) > * Adding JavaScript-based interactivity (particularly search) > * Adding support for multiple languages > * Adding an RSS/Atom feed > > The development has required setting up another GitHub organisation in > order to get another GitHub Pages site: > > https://github.com/TiddlyWikiLinks/TiddlyWikiLinks > > (For those with long memories, this is, of course, a variation of the > "TWederation" archiecture we have discussed as a community for a long time). > > I’ve been able to put this together in a few days thanks to all that I’ve > learned on my recent client projects. My personal goal for 2021 remains to > get a Community Plugin Library up and running for TiddlyWiki. The link > aggregator is a simpler proposition that should give us some valuable > experience for that initiative. > > Questions and thoughts welcome, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fceccafe-25d9-4dee-b6a9-919b83787706n%40googlegroups.com.
