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I've just creadted this node to outline the ideas. In the next weeks I'll make it grow. -- EduardoMercovich 2005-01-03 18:51:57
Reviving Advanced Hypertext: see http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050103.html for a great re-introduction to basic hypertext characteristics and the web. As you can see, MoinMoin already has quite a few of the listed desired features.
Following this lines, a few whishes (medium to long term) to make it even more powerful.
Wiki walks, trails or guided tours
A list of nodes in a page creates in those nodes (when started the travel from the list), a sequence of <<-previous| and |next->> links. Described in http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiTrails.
This is useful for many knowledge specific sites, to provide multi-page guided tours as "Introduction to Moin Moin", or "How to become a Moin developer".
Other:
FacetedNavigation and FacetedClassificationInMoin: about the creation of a multiple (semantic) category mechanism).
AutomagicalMenus: the faceted classificacion of the previous point could be used to generate seudo hierarquical access to Moin contents.
Typed nodes and links
If nodes can be typed (due to the faceted classification), links can be also typed. For example, show differente links that go to related concepts, proposal for implementations, glossary, etc.
Also, recent changes & searches could be filtered by type of node.
For a (relatively complex) discussion of this issue (and triplets and RDF in wikis), see RdfForWikis.
Semantic Moin
The next important phase of the web is what is called the SemanticWeb. Along with all the previous points, and the ResourceDescriptionFramework, SemanticMoin could be a great infrastructure to make our knowledge more useful to others. This includes graphical representations of Moin content, like the one showed in "Circles and arrows diagrams using stylesheet rules" en el Web Consortium.
Me, my community and the world
Also, several proposals exist to remove the borders between what is mine only, of my community, and the rest of the world. Here you have :
InterWiki (almost).
And in other places:
http://ourpla.net/john/wikiweblogpim.html (not clear, but readable).
Clearly, there is a need and a trend, and we should start moving in this direction.