> By jabber notifications support in MediaWiki, are we talking presence > notification? What else could be worth noting? > And by jabber authentication like Drupal in MediaWiki, do you mean > also like OpenID? I wonder what the advantages, most importantly the > integrity of both identity systems happens to be. Or is something else > intended?
I can list a few ideas that apply to either system, or many other wikis and CMSs. * Send jabber messages (as type=headline) to subscribers to a forum/wiki/cms when certain criteria is met, such as: new article, article you are monitoring is changed, opt-in announcements list has a new item. Some systems do this already (e.g. Unclassified Newsboard http://newsboard.unclassified.de), but MW and Drupal are extremely popular and lack this native functionality. * Presence notification as you said. For example next to the name of the author of a page is a graphical indicator of their jabber status. I've seen this done using a bot to maintain the presence subscriptions (see Edgar http://edgar.netflint.net). * Authentication is a good one. Drupal used to have a module that would allow you during the account login process to use your Jabber ID as your username. And when you enter your password, it would pass it to your jabber server to auth you. Very novel, for a GPL CMS. And if your account didn't exist during login, it's created on-the-fly, because of course a user ID will have to exist in Drupal's database for permissions and stuff. Note the phrase "used to" above. It's no longer maintained, and if I recall correctly, it would require updating to be compatible with the current version. I for one could really use this Drupal mod. Let' see what else... * You could be the first to implement a pubsub service that would mate with a CMS. Maybe every article is exposed as a node, and users can maintain subscriptions that way? * Same for remote control (http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0146.html), perhaps for administration purposes? * I can think of a dozen other ways a new jabber server component could integrate with a CMS... * Perhaps an XMPP messaging API for a CMS? It could be used by other plugin authors for integrating IM into their sites. * XML-RPC-style pings over Jabber that create automated links between Wiki pages. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has "See Also: [interwiki-link-to-server2:WikiArticleB]", and the act of saving the article will ping server2.com and create a trackback-style entry in the destination article. Wow, that's a good idea. Put my name in the credits please. :) -- Psi webmaster (http://psi-im.org) im:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://halr9000.com _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
