[TW5] Federation, TWederation and what comes next

[Jed Carty]

Federation works, you can take the federation-core plugin and put it in a wiki and then you can fetch content from that wiki from other wikis that have the plugin.

TWederation also works. The problems it has now are mainly down to initial setup being poorly documented and how slow the interface is. I may need to steal some tricks from the list widget to improve the TOC widget I made to display the posts correctly so that the refresh cycle doesn't take so long.

So for the most part the interesting pieces (for me at least) of the problems have been solved and now it is down to improving and refining things. I get very bored doing things like this and without something to keep me interested I am probably never going to make any significant progress on it.

To review for those who don't know what any of this means:

Federation lets one wiki talk to another wiki. You can use this to share information among many different wikis with different users. Example: teacher makes a central wiki for a course and each student has their own wiki where they can take notes and do exercises. The teacher can add content or lessons to the central wiki and students would be able to just click on a button in their wiki to import the new lessons. The teacher could also have a (probably private) wiki where they can click a button to fetch the completed exercises from the students wikis.

TWederation is an application of Federation, at the moment it is something not unlike how you share posts on facebook or google+, it could also be used as something similar to the google groups discussion board. You can see it here.

If you want to join you need to have a place to host your wiki, at the moment the easiest way is to use tiddlyspot. If you go to the twederation setup wiki here and follow the setup wizard it has instructions for making a tiddlyspot wiki and setting everything up.

[Jed Carty]

More people hopefully means more help, so that sounds good to me.

[Sergey Shishkin]

http://serjaleks.tiddlyspot.com

My next step?

пятница, 23 сентября 2016 г., 16:28:14 UTC+2 пользователь Jed Carty написал:

[Jed Carty]

I do not know how but you have old versions of the plugin which no longer work. It would be easiest to go here (http://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/TWederation/) and put in the information for your tiddlyspot and redo the setup process.

Where did you get the plugins? I don't want to have old versions around confusing people.

[Dmitry Sokolov]

Hi Jed,

I managed to install TWederation on TiddlySpot with the help of Birthe.
I am convinced now that all TiddlyWiki administration must be done on Chrome.
The TiddlySpot setup instructions are published here:
http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/114094198/TiddlySpot%20Setup
TWederation setup is here:
http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/113792773/Twederation%20and%20Federation%20-%20Getting%20Started

Now I can switch to the development TWederation to be reflected here:
http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/113977141/TWederation%20Development
according to the objectives listed here:
http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/114069763/TiddlyWiki%20Intents%20Map

The highest priority objectives:
- versioning
- multi-user co-working
- distributed storage, meaning that the most important tiddlers will be kept on the authors' PCs

What would be my next steps?
I would appreciate your suggestions with me getting started.
At the moment, I only know where the TWederation development hub is: TWederation on GitHub

Thank you,
Dmitry