(2020-04-14) Aldrich Webmention For Tiddlywiki To Enable Website To Website Notifications And Communication

Chris Aldrich: Webmention for TiddlyWiki to enable website to website notifications and communication. I’m going to focus on using a third party service to do all of the heavy lifting and code our behalf. It’s relatively common, especially in the static website space, for websites to rely on third party or publisher services to either send or receive Webmentions on their behalf

I thought it would be quickest and easiest to look at using the Webmention.io service to handle receiving these @mentions from other sites on my behalf.

Receiving Webmention notifications for your TiddlyWiki

Logging into Webmention.io

Creating your Webmention endpoint

I’ve put a small Webmention badge into the footer of my TiddlyWiki site to visually indicate to human readers that the site accepts webmentions

Sending Webmentions with TiddlyWiki

Sending Webmentions seems to be an issue as the fragment-based URLs that TiddlyWiki uses as permalinks using JavaScript seem to cause an issue with many receivers.

Hyperchats, Wikis, and Open Educational Resources (OER): if my TiddlyWiki is notified of mentions of it from outside sources, I can quickly cut and paste those responses directly into my Wiki pages in a pseudo-comment section similar to the comments section on this post which could serve as a model