User:Judean/Tomers Thoughts

The ideas that are floating in my head. Okay, so here goes:

(wiki.org)
 * the system will be like a wiki, but not exactly "The Wiki Way" wiki

or for the public.
 * every page will either be intended for an individual, for a group,

set whether the content that they generate is private or public (but only they can edit it.
 * if it is a private/individual's page, or a group's page, they can

that is).
 * public pages are readable/writable by anyone (anyone in the system,

(http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss)
 * EVERY page is syndicated via RSS


 * EVERY page will have an associated IRC/Jabber chatroom.

a node in a Friendster-like social network).
 * every individual using this system can create a FOAF entry (creating


 * every individual can create as many blogs as they want.


 * every individual's content can be set to be public or private.

group.
 * every individual can create a group, and invite others to join a

their content are private to their group, or public.
 * groups can create their own content, too. And decide which items of

content.
 * a user can see what he's edited in the system, and who's editing his

history of their revision history, including who posted it.
 * Every page (as all good Wiki's do, anyways) will have a complete

another language, collaboratively.
 * Every page will be enabled with the ability to translate it into


 * the system will have a hierarchy/directory

then be maintained by people's voting on organizational additions or rearrangements. Example, if someone proposes a top-level category of "Foozball", then since it is unlikely to get many supporting votes from other people, it will not "make the cut".
 * the system's hierarchy will be given an initial design, but will

organized dynamically by the people labelling it and voting on it themselves.
 * therefore, the hierarchial organization of the wiki will be

some graphical representation (www.touchgraph.com)
 * the complicated graph structure of the system will be viewable via

aggregators, by merely taking various sources of info and pooling it into one source.
 * since *every* page is syndicated, some pages might act as

it has been posted and reviewed by many members, and has very little "no" votes compared to those in favor. The code will then be  added.
 * *risky* extension tools can be added to the site dynamically after

the information stored it in with ease (via computer programs / scripts).
 * the system will have an open-source API, so that people can access

webspiders, scrapers, indexers, etc.).
 * the system will be friendly to robots (i.e., webcrawlers,

Well... that's it for now!

It's hard to put a name on it, but by building such an expressive, easy to use, multi-lingual repository of knowledge, in an open and accessible way, we can bring about a second wave of the Internet Revolution, where everyone can meet, share/publish information, and translate it to numerous languages quickly.

As for the business side of things. Once (or if) this catches on, then we can do like what SourceForge (sf.net) did, and offer the exact same services as a corporate package (free for the people, expensive for the corporations). That's how VA Linux makes money on SourceForge.

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