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Overview

%wiki as it exists today is capable of publishing wikis to the clearweb, and collaborating via EAuth. However as a decentralized network of wikis, %wiki has the potential to do much more, and this proposal for "%wiki phase 2" is meant to address that.

The overall aims of this grant are:

  • Users can read other users' wikis by logging into their own ship, without needing the wiki host's public URL
  • Global search, which can include results from all public wikis on the network
  • Various UX enhancements
  • Shared private wikis
  • A user management system

Milestones

Milestone 1 - Public Remote Access + Global Search

  • Compensation: 2 stars
  • Deliverables
    • User can create and edit content on remote public wikis
      • User does not need to join or subscribe to a public wiki to access it
      • User does not need to know the wiki host's URL
      • Host does not need to make their wiki accessible via a URL
    • %wiki maintains an index of wikis from across the network
      • Index is decentralized, there is no central indexer ship
      • User does not need to proactively add these wikis to the index
      • Index is reasonably exhaustive, should track the entire network of public wikis
    • Global search - search results can include matches from all indexed wikis
      • Searching will return similar pages from different wikis, including wikis the user has not visited before

Milestone 2 - User Experience Enhancements

  • Compensation: 1 star
  • Deliverables:
    • Mobile-friendly UI
    • Host can use custom CSS for their wiki
    • Host can use a custom logo for their wiki
    • User can bookmark remote wikis
    • User can fork remote wikis
      • User becomes the host of the forked wiki
      • Forked wiki keeps the revision history of its parent wiki

Milestone 3 - Shared Private Wikis + User Roles

  • Compensation: 2 stars
  • Deliverables:
    • Hosts can assign roles to other users such as admin, moderator, and editor
      • Admins can do anything the host can
      • Hosts/admins can restrict editing to the "editor" role or higher
      • Hosts/admins/mods can ban specific users
    • Hosts of private wikis can grant access to other specific Urbit users
      • TBD if this is based off a whitelist or %groups membership
    • Users can access private wikis either at their clearweb URL via EAuth, or remotely via their own ships

My Background

I am the developer and maintainer for %wiki, as well as the contacts app, %whom.