[Foundation-l] No tail-lights. What do we do now? (was Call for referendum)

[Nikola Smolenski]

On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along
> these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
> easier to start, without having to start yet another wiki-based
> general encyclopedia that directly competes with Wikipedia. Disruptive
> innovation starts in niches, not in a position where it'll just end up
> a bug on Wikipedia's windscreen.

Some things I believe could be easily programmed:

* Ability to surf through multiple wikis. For example, you could be 
reading article on a specialist wiki such as 
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29 ; upon clicking the 
link Gilgamesh, you would be taken to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh ; when you further browse 
Wikipedia and click on Star Trek you would go not to Wikipedia's article 
but back to http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek .

** This could be more easily applied to multilingual wikis. For example, 
you could select which languages you know; and when you click on a link, 
you would be taken not to the current language but to the best article 
available in any of your languages.

* Ability to view diffs between two articles on two wikis. I believe 
this would be very easy to do.

* Ability to edit from diff (when you view a diff, you could select 
which differences do you want to insert into the article, and which 
differences do you want to discard). This could be very useful even 
within a single wiki.