Wikify…
I like wiki. But… its too hard.
I want to be able to wikify my entire website, so that if I update my blog and mention a Wiki keyword like ChrisStevenson, it will automatically be linked to the appropriate wiki page.
And what if I want to be able to link from my wiki to my blog?
And what if we extend the idea - so that if I enter a jira id like NMO-3 that was also recognised and turned into a link?
Now one more step: what if I were able to do this on another web site, in a way similar to Annotera - annotate someone else’s web site, but share the annotations in a similar way to blog feeds, so anyone can subscribe to feeds they are interested in and have the annotations highlighted in some way (colour?, icon?).
Some requirements though:
- zero configuration (or as little as possible)
- no requirement for centralised servers (unlike annotera)
- simplicity
- discoverablility
This is a bit like the semantic web stuff, but a little more anarchic…
October 18th, 2002 at 5:55 pm
Multicosm/Active Navigation has a feature like this; essentially a smart set of search expressions for annotating web content to link up to catalog pages, dictionaries, etc. The InfoLab (Hammond et al. at Northwestern) had similar add-on for Word called Watson.
A simpler solution is in a place at Infoworld and other trade rags. It appears to have auto-inserted links for most industry jargon.
I’ve tried writing this sort of add-on, and it’s not easy for arbitrary content. It can also get annoying to see links all over the place — some sort of “annotate the first occurrence in the paragraph” feature would be nice.
refs:
http://www.activenavigation.com
An Infoworld “klink” (KnowledgeLink) for “wireless”
http://www.infoworld.com/klink/wireless/wireless.html?w=wireless