URL semantics

[almereyda]

I want to be able to refactor different wikis aside by pasting a URL after the other

http://change.lab/view/welcome-visitors/http://jon.patterns.wiki.transformap.co/view/welcome-visitors

into the URL bar, like I am doing it at times, usually including the neccessary adaptations, when I don't want to leave traces of drags and drops.

If we understand "crude and unappealing" (tm) interfaces as unwelcoming human interaction choices, probably also reading all these /view fragments may not be needed at all one day? Yet I understand their existence is implied if we want to be able to distinguish between a remote and the current location.

Now I am asking myself why I am avoiding the drag and the drop at all.

[WardCunningham]

We will have to come up with something else for touch interfaces so might as well make that work on the desktop.

[almereyda]

These kinds of URLs occur in other places, such as hypothesis/via#158

We use different URL patterns for addressing wiki pages, lists of pages or lineups:

• http://fed.wiki/welcome-visitors.html
• http://fed.wiki/welcome-visitors.json
• http://fed.wiki/system/sitemap.json
• http://fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/how-to-wiki/fed.wiki.org/how-to-wiki/fed.wiki.org/field-guide-to-the-federation/hello.ward.bay.wiki.org/featured-sites/hello.ward.bay.wiki.org/featured-documentation/view/how-to-wiki/view/search-for-lineup/ward.bay.wiki.org/temporary-transclusion/view/lineup-diagram/future.fedwiki.org/fedwiki-card-lineup/future.fedwiki.org/lineup-links/future.fedwiki.org/lineup-viewer/ward.fed.wiki.org/lineup-url
• http://read.wiki.org/#fed.wiki/welcome-visitors/fed.wiki/how-to-wiki/fed.wiki.org/how-to-wiki/fed.wiki.org/field-guide-to-the-federation/hello.ward.bay.wiki.org/featured-sites/hello.ward.bay.wiki.org/featured-documentation/fed.wiki/how-to-wiki/fed.wiki/search-for-lineup/ward.bay.wiki.org/temporary-transclusion/fed.wiki/lineup-diagram/future.fedwiki.org/fedwiki-card-lineup/future.fedwiki.org/lineup-links/future.fedwiki.org/lineup-viewer/ward.fed.wiki.org/lineup-url

Optionally preserving the scheme in these URL lineups, we could possibly also transcend into other transports to widen the federation. Thinking of dat://, ssb:// or imaginable ones like ipfs:// or matrix://.

This correlates with WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki#411 (comment) and recent experiments with http://found.ward.bay.wiki.org/view/wikis-robot-scouts/view/async-polymorphic-fetch