Some ideas for doing mashups of IRC and WiKi (esp Wiki For Collaboration Ware)

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

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

• recognizes Wiki Word-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 Recent Changes and posts changes to IRC.

• maybe makes sense to use RSS for this?

See Blue Oxen thread

custom IRC client - tweak Chat Zilla 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 Wiki Word it launches a browser window for that page.

• pretty rendering of Smart Ascii (Chat Zilla uses same bold/italic tags as in email)

• ?

custom IRC server

• with custom client

  • ??

• with vanilla client

  • ??

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