1 Wiki Blog Integration Concept

Blogs log events, wikis categorize data. Neither is really great at the other. Here I discuss ways of integrating them.

2 One simple way of integrating wikis and blogs

Blogs and Wikis can be integrated easily if:

• the blog supports post by e-mail and

• the wiki supports subscribe by e-mail to changes of any page.

I appear to have gotten this to work with B2 and MoinMoin. But I had to hack MoinMoin quite a bit to get the mail in a reasonable format whereby I'd actually want it blogged.

I now also have a hack to B2 that automatically inserts links to wiki pages (with wiki names) that exist, but only if not in between angle brackets - I don't want to have links inside of links as nested anchors haven't been allowed for a long time in HTML land.

3 If you don't have access to the "internals" of your blog/wiki

See BlogWikiInTheRough.

4 Other implementations/discussions

• http://pikie.webbing.nl/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?WebLogUsage

• http://www.zope.org/Members/karl/BlogFace/BlogFace/wikiblog.txt

• http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WeblogWithWiki

• http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WeblogWithWikiDiscussion

• WikiBlog page on MeatBall

• http://www.ourpla.net/john/wikiweblogpim.html

• http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?WikiWeblogs

• http://www.tranquileye.com/journal/001364.html

• http://www.nyetwork.org/wiki/WikiBlog/

• http://viii.dclxvi.org/demo/wikiblog/blog

• http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/IntroPage

• http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie

• Example of atotally manual weblog done on a wiki

• http://snipsnap.org/space/start

And possibly for use with a desktop (blogging/wiki-ing client) side implementation:

• http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/XmlRpcFilterService

• http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PipeFilters

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See also:

• BlogWikiIntegration