I'm wondering if trackbacks (as well as referrer tracking referrers) could be used effectively to help conversations happen across multiple wiki's. In some ways the idea is similar to SisterSites but would allow linking between wiki, blog and any other TrackBack enabled system.
Implementation
Would need to implement a TrackBack action.
When you click the trackback action at the bottom of the page it would show you all the trackbacks which exist to this page, and there would be a form for putting in the URL that you want to send the trackback ping to. That wiki would then send a trackback ping to the site in question.
You also need to setup facilities for recieving and displaying trackbacks. I need to understand more about exactly how they work, but presumably you'd send the ping to PageName?action=trackback or similar.
Perhaps a UserPreferences for controlling whether trackbacks are displayed at the bottom of the page, or you have to click on the trackback action link at the bottom.
Presumably trackback data would be stored in pages/PageName/trackback or similar.
Could possibly do TrackBack auto-discovery (scroll down) on a preview. If any external links are TrackBack enabled then it could put tick boxes beneath the edit box to allow you to select/unselect which links to TrackBack to.
Discussion
I think I get it now. This is about "look what I wrote about what you wrote, here's how you can link to my (related) content". Right? -- JürgenHermann 2003-05-10 08:04:43
Yep pretty much, the idea is to encourage conversation but to allow everyone to contribute on their own site. See Sam's Blog for an example of a blog entry with comments as both comments and trackbacks. Other cool ideas, at the EmergingTechnology conference people were trying to convince JeffBezos to allow people to write book/CD reviews on their own web site and then use trackback's to link it to the relevant section of Amazon's web site. -- Adam.
I've implemented a version of trackback for Moin 1.2.x. See JosYule
Right on, thanks for letting me know! I'll play with this soon (hopefully tomorrow), next up referrer tracking
-- Adam. I think I'm trackback enabled ... now I'm just trying to figure out how to send you a ping
-- Adam.