Jumps in, mentions twederation <https://github.com/inmysocks/TW5-TWederation>, jumps out again.
On Sunday, 4 April 2021 at 10:28:31 UTC+1 Mohammad wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 1:38 PM Saq Imtiaz <saq.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Mohammad, > > > Hi Saq, > >> >> So a lot of things are still up in the air. As I mentioned this is a >> quick prototype without a lot of pre-planning and I haven't had the chance >> to figure out a good workflow yet even for my specific needs. I'll try to >> answer your questions as well as I can at this point, >> > > >> but some things we may need to discuss and figure out together. >> > > Sure! > >> >> >>> One question: In Searchwikis (https://github.com/kookma/TW-Searchwikis) >>> it uses index tiddlers from target wikis to search them >>> The question is: Can I use Get Remote Tiddlers plugin to automatically >>> update the indeed tiddlers in my main wiki i.e to fetch latest changes? >>> >> >> Yes that should be possible as long as the wikis are on the same domain >> or served with CORS headers. The catch is that for every wiki, the code >> will be fetching the entire TW file to extract the tiddlers, which means >> more bandwidth used and also possibly some lag in the wiki depending on the >> number of wikis being fetched and the hardware. I want to experiment with >> using the same technique with an uglified TW with Flibbles' plugin, or a TW >> with the core in an external js file. Especially the second option should >> load considerably faster. >> > > I did not know the whole wiki is fetched, then yes for many external wikis > or large wikis we will have some time lags! I use the Flibbles uglify, I am > very happy with that, but for this case still the empty.html is around > 1.2MB, the external.js seems promising here! > >> >> Another option that might make the most sense for Searchwikis is to >> generate and save the index as a separate file. This would need far less >> bandwidth to fetch and should overall be considerably faster. For wikis >> served by Github pages we could even try to implement an option to save the >> index file automatically each time the wiki is saved. >> > > Great! Right now I have to open each target wiki separately, update the > index, export it, and import to the central wiki! > >> >> >>> A more radical question is can " Get Remote Tiddlers " deprecate >>> searchwikis and lets users search other wikis from a central wiki? >>> >> >> Fetching tiddlers from a remote wiki already entails loading the entire >> wiki and extracting all its tiddlers and creating an array of tiddler >> titles. So yes, theoretically you could skip the part of Searchwikis that >> creates the index and just use Get Remote Tiddlers to create the index for >> the other wikis. However, the same caveats apply in terms of bandwidth >> usage and that with many wikis being fetched in the background it could >> slow down the wiki when that is happening. Using TW files with an external >> core.js file would be very helpful here. >> >> Having to rely on CORS headers being present is indeed a limitation but >> this overall approach (rather than the code I posted specifically) opens >> some interesting possibilities as well. >> >> If you're interested, there's a small discussion here about enabling CORS >> on TiddlyHost: https://github.com/simonbaird/tiddlyhost/issues/112 >> > > I will! > >> >> I am also curious to see if TW on Fission opens up for similar workflows. >> >> Cheers, >> Saq >> > > > Thank you Saq! > >> -- >> 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 tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a30adfd0-8d9f-42d8-aea6-e0824c777db6n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a30adfd0-8d9f-42d8-aea6-e0824c777db6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c8eb6ed1-0046-441a-9d82-0c022fed248en%40googlegroups.com.
