If you're making a collaborative wiki then one must assume that you are using some form node.js TiddlyWiki. You can't really do collaboration with single-file TW except via federation, which is more of a concept than an actual thing. With node.js you have multiple tiddler files. They can all be on a shared resource like dropbox. Each person then would have their own node.js instance running. Or in an office, there could be one server that everyone connects to. There are two problems.
1. Someone else can write over your tiddler while you're writing 2. You can't see someone else's changes without restarting the node server You can solve problem #1 by having a gentlewomen's (gentlemen's) agreement for assigning tiddlers. Like "All my tiddlers will start with LUD" Bob solves problem #2 by automatically showing you changed tiddlers on the server. Security on the net is hard. Companies get hacked every day. Putting a node.js instance directly on a public-facing internet server would probably be dangerous, even though node.js does have a facility for ssl certificates. VPN provides a more secure way for non-experts in security to share files over the net. On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 2:17:50 AM UTC-8 ludwa6 wrote: > @tones , can you explain: Why only in VPN-Intranet mode? Is it (a) To > maintain integrity of InfoArchitecture (i.e. controlled vocabulary, > taxonomy, naming conventions, etc.), or (b) Because of system security > (i.e. risk of malicious hacking)... Or is it A+B both? > > From my limited tech understanding, i would guess both, since "it's > tiddlers all the way down"... But i think it's important to distinguish > between these two forms of risk, because there could be different ways of > handling each. > > I've had a good browse around the Bob repo > <https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-Bob/>, b/t/w, but must say: i'm not > really understanding what UseCase(s) it is designed to enable, and i've yet > to find any working examples of it online. Would be most interested to > see, if anyone can point me to any... And if you have any demo of your > solution-in-dev to show, Tones, that might also be instructive. > > On Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 11:30:51 PM UTC TW Tones wrote: > >> Cedric, >> >> My simple answer to " Do you think that it can be an suitable tool for >> me? " is yes, but it important to realise the following key points; >> >> - TiddlyWiki is a platform on which a suitable tool can be built and >> evolved >> - True collaboration is only possible on top of Bob which is a Node >> solution and thus may be a safe Intranet or LAN solution, but only an >> internet solution with a VPN by users into you LAN (my opinion) >> - Jed is building more of the security and Internet facing features >> with Bob but he needs more funding support >> - I have being working toward a simple serial editor method (Check in >> / Out) which would be another way to collaborate but I have not had much >> support and would need some funding as well, as I need to make a living. >> >> Regards >> Tones >> On Friday, 29 January 2021 at 20:41:09 UTC+11 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody. >>> >>> I am Cedric, a French Software developer and I start working in a very >>> small (4 people) team o software developers in a very small company. >>> >>> Unfortunately the knowledge is neither organized either shared between >>> people who yet work in the same room and I want to start documenting >>> projects and applications while managing updates and versions. >>> >>> Knowing that we already have a Jira to manage our project but we cannot >>> afford for a team plan I was looking for a free open source wikimedia like >>> or a home made blog using Wagtail when I discovered Tiddly. >>> >>> Do you think that it can be an suitable tool for me? >>> >>> Best regards. >>> Cedric J. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3659cdc6-5581-4a4e-a608-a3baa417ca70n%40googlegroups.com.
