[[2022-05-14]] [[Agora]] is going to enter a new phase: multi-Agora epoch. There are going to be new instances. How should they interoperate with each other? In this little essay I show some possible approaches. This essay is written for [[Flancian]].
++TODO: Mycorrhiza has interwiki links now, update the hypha
= Interwiki [[Wiki]]s had this for ages. They have this special table called interwiki map, that lets you set mapping to wikis you care about. For example:
table { ! id ! url | mycorrhiza | [[https://mycorrhiza.wiki/hypha/ | melanocarpa | [[https://melanocarpa.lesarbr.es/hypha/ | anagora | [[https://anagora.org/node/ }
After the map is loaded, all links that are prefixed with ids from the table above, along with a special separator, will link to the target site. The classic syntax had :. For example, [\[anagora:wednesday]] would link [[https://anagora.org/node/wednesday]] . [[Doku Wiki]] chose a different character: >. [[Mycorrhiza]] will follow the suite, and wants Agora to choose it as well. [\[anagora>wednesday]].
Mycorrhiza is going to encode the table as a JSON. Read the ideas: => https://mycorrhiza.wiki/hypha/idea/interwiki
I think Agora could copy this approach completely. Every Agora would have its own interwiki map. Closer Agorae would interwiki each other. Also, for node a it would make sense to link nodes with the same name on interwiki wikis in the related nodes section.
= Prefix-less interwiki
What if you drop the prefix? [\[wednesday]] would link a local node, if there is one, or one in a different Agora, if there is one. This approach is liberating, because it doesn't make you think about places, you only care about the names.
A very similar idea is [[twin pages]] AKA sister pages. See [[Bill Seitz twin pages]]. See how [[Odd Muse]] did it. But can you have multiple twin sites? I think of a queue of twin sites. One site is the closest, the other one is a little farther, and one is very far away. Each of them is checked for the node one-by-one, until it is found. Of course, this is network-heavy.
- public document at doc.anagora.org/interwiki_for_agora
- video call at meet.jit.si/interwiki_for_agora
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