Wiki And IRC

Some ideas for doing mashups of IRC and Wiki (esp Wiki For CollaborationWare)

• I'm not doing anything with this at the moment because our office connectivity is flaky enough that I suspect a bot would keep getting disconnected

  • though maybe I need to test that theory because I think some bots have auto-reconnect features...

IrcBot ideas

• associates a WikiSpace with a channel (I guess that should be changeable by sending it a command)

  • rev2: use InterWikiMap config file and allow cross-wiki names like Meatball Wiki:InterMap (for non-default spaces)

• recognizes WikiWord-s in the human postings

• checks each against a current list of nodes in the wiki namespace (so you'd need some config file listing the nodes per space, and a way to update it)

  • Worse Is Better: don't even worry about it, just generate URI as if it existed

• for each match outputs the associated URI

A flip-related idea: bot that watches RecentChanges and posts changes to IRC.

• maybe makes sense to use RSS for this?

See Blue Oxen thread - I think a granular-threaded discussion medium is still needed. OHS obviously provides that. I played with a similar idea: Node Web.

custom IRC client - tweak ChatZilla or WxIrc? Have to get the entire team using the same one.

• have a Wiki space associated with a session. If you double-click (ctrl-click?) on a WikiWord it launches a browser window for that page.

• pretty rendering of SmartAscii (ChatZilla uses same bold/italic tags as in email)

• ?

custom IRC server

• with custom client

  • ??

• with vanilla client

  • ??