There should also be a tag to indicate "highest supported version" or something similar if relevant (for plugins, for example) and its known.
On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 8:09:59 PM UTC-5 David Gifford wrote: > There should be a way to report dead links. LibreNote, for example, turns > up a 404. Someone is adding links without even checking them first. > > Also, giffmex.org has been https:// since early 2020. If those adding > links to giffmex.org could convert them from http: to https:, that would > be appreciated. > > On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 11:00:23 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > >> One of the obstacles we face as a community is that we don’t have a good >> place for us to curate and share bookmarks to useful resources. Dave >> Gifford has shown what's possible with his ToolMap, an invaluable community >> resource. But it’s a huge challenge for any one person to keep an >> undertaking like that up to date, let alone complete. >> >> So, I’m pleased to announce TiddlyWikiLinks, a community links aggregator >> that allows us to collectively curate bookmarks: >> >> https://links.tiddlywiki.com >> >> The way it works is that multiple contributing editors each maintain >> their own TiddlyWiki containing their bookmarks. These wikis are registered >> with the system on GitHub, and then at intervals a script retrieves all the >> links and aggregates them together into a new wiki. >> >> The above links are to a static rendering to help Google find things, but >> the information is also available in TiddlyWiki format: >> >> https://links.tiddlywiki.com/wiki.html >> >> It’s easy to set up to be a contributing editor. The main requirement is >> that bookmarks be kept as tiddlers tagged "$:/tags/Link" with an “url” >> field containing the URL. So, for example, I’m “jermolene”, and all my >> links are to be found at: >> >> https://links.tiddlywiki.com/contributors/jermolene/ >> >> My bookmarking wiki is here: >> >> https://jermolene-links.tiddlyhost.com >> >> If enough people volunteer to be contributing editors, we can spread the >> workload and make something much more valuable than any of us could do >> individually. I’d be happy if we had a handful of contributing link editors >> making high quality bookmarks, but I think this system could be scaled to >> at least a few hundred. >> >> If you’re interested, please reply here with the URL of your bookmarking >> wiki and your choice of username. >> >> As ever, there’s a lot to do on the development side to take this forward: >> >> * Improving the styling (consider the current colour scheme and styling >> to be a placeholder!) >> * Adding JavaScript-based interactivity (particularly search) >> * Adding support for multiple languages >> * Adding an RSS/Atom feed >> >> The development has required setting up another GitHub organisation in >> order to get another GitHub Pages site: >> >> https://github.com/TiddlyWikiLinks/TiddlyWikiLinks >> >> (For those with long memories, this is, of course, a variation of the >> "TWederation" archiecture we have discussed as a community for a long time). >> >> I’ve been able to put this together in a few days thanks to all that I’ve >> learned on my recent client projects. My personal goal for 2021 remains to >> get a Community Plugin Library up and running for TiddlyWiki. The link >> aggregator is a simpler proposition that should give us some valuable >> experience for that initiative. >> >> Questions and thoughts welcome, >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> -- 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/abda0efc-9192-491f-a3bd-fd74cd85096an%40googlegroups.com.
