Instead of another unrecognized 3rd-party system, why not have a page that lists and describes Plugins at TiddlyWiki.com? Similar to the community listings except consolidated in one page. The individual description tiddlers could follow a standard format so people could copy and submit (possibly right to this forum) new plugins.
Mark On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 4:21:44 AM UTC-7, Mat wrote: > > In another thread, fellow Josiah asked the folowing. Rather than hijacking > that thread I'm replying here: > > .... > > Mat, could you write a plugin that records plugins? >> > > Regarding my own plugins, I should get my TWaddle site active again, to > list them. (I've started working a little on this.) > > Generally, I hope people know about Erwan's TiddlyWiki Community Search > <http://erwanm.github.io/tw-community-search/>. It allows you to search > all tiddlers on TWs that have been "reported" to it and it performs an > automated *daily update* to show which tiddlers (plugins etc) that have > been updated. BUT, again, it can only scan TWs that have been 'reported' to > it or TWs that are listed in a "root wiki", > <http://erwanm.github.io/tw-community-search/#FollowUrlFeature>i.e a TW > that links to other TWs. As evidenced, even if it scans daily (and it > does), the reporting bit is a bottleneck. (For example, I don't have it in > mind when creating my own plugins, which are on separate tiddlyspot > domains, and while TWaddle IS a reported root wiki it is currently passive, > so...) > > Also, ironically, the Community Search project suffers from the very > problem it aims to solve: It is not obvious how one should get informed > about its existence. > > > *...now what we really need* is a system where *ones own wiki* performs > such a scan. And somehow you could get recommendations, via your scans, for > other wikis or plugins or whatever. > > Yes, TWederation. > > Let me add that we have the pieces for this in place and it works. It is, > however, still not polished and it is currently too slow to be practical. > > For those that don't know, here's a quick run thought on how it could be > designed: > > > *How to find plugins / tiddlers / whole TWs*Similar to how the native > plugin library works, there can be a default feature in standard TW to > "Fetch"... i.e to scans the wikis you "subscribe" to, to get you tiddlers > or other information. You decide to subscribe to, and you decide what > tiddlers to actually fetch from the TWs you subscribe to. > > *How do you know what wikis you can subscribe to? How do you find them?* > The main route is via wikis you *already* subscribe to, i.e other peoples > wikis that in turn subscribe to other wikis and so you can peek on their > lists. That is a "quality stamp". Or someone even has a tiddler with > @<yourname> and recommends stuff for you. > > But how did anyone find any wikis to begin with? Well, that's easy because > it is only *cruciual* for kicking things off. We could have a listing on > tiddlywiki.com or even in the discussion forum. > > *The key here is information that is created out of individuals personal > incentive for quality in their own TWs.* You *care* about which plugins > you have installed. This is "stamp of quality", and I'm curious to see > which those plugins are. Everyone has an *incentive *to curate their > plugins or really all of their tiddlers. This is in stark contrast to rely > on single individuals efforts to keep some external list curated. > > And the TWederation plugin itself (again, think of the existing "Plugin > Library") could come with a "recommended-subscriptions-list" and this is > kept up to date by... you guessed it; fetching. (And who curates *that* > list? It's too detailed to go into that here but, trust me, it's not a > problem.) > > > > *One limitation is that you can only subscribe/fetch from TWs that are > online.*True, but many are. Especially if we're talking about TWs where > people present their plugins. > > > The result is an infrastructure that doesn't rely on a single individual > to keep track of everything but instead aggregates small tidbits that > several people make about several issues. > > It is also an infrastructure that would easify development of the > infrastructure itself. You can easily be informed about plugins that > enhance TWederation! > > > > *...that is the concept of TWederation.* > > <:-) > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3849c05b-6548-4ba0-b26b-58f0d28243cc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
