2003-10-18

The Nagib Machfus book is getting me down a bit. The incredible pressure within this family is sickening. ISBN 3-293-20065-6.

I started using the Near Link Extension for MeatBall and EmacsWiki. We’ll see how it goes. Note the difference between the links to MeatBall (a near link), MeatBall:MeatBall (a far link), and MeatballWiki (local page).

Near Link Extension

EmacsWiki

MeatBall:MeatBall

Note that more URL abbreviations have been defined on the InterMap, but only the files for Meatball and EmacsWiki exist.

Found http://www.canonicaltomes.org/ via BayleShanks’ temporary homepage ².

http://www.canonicaltomes.org/

BayleShanks

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I wonder whether http://www.affero.com/ makes sense at all. Why should it be better than PayPal? Perhaps the idea that the creator is definitely *not* getting the money – after all, he probably doesn’t need it anyway. I like the idea: EmacsWiki:EmacsWiki says that you should donate to your favorite charity and announce it on the wiki, but nobody has ever done this, as far as I can tell. So perhaps using affero.com makes sense. The Team page says that the guy heading the company is also on the FSF board. I guess I trust them, then. 😄 In the end, I subscribed to affero.com and created a page for the EmacsWiki, and I put a link to that page on EmacsWiki:EmacsWiki.

http://www.affero.com/

EmacsWiki:EmacsWiki

EmacsWiki

EmacsWiki:EmacsWiki

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I should really read MeatballWiki some day. But to comment here, NearLinks are not a HumaneInterface as they are *magical.* They are examples of ContextSwizzling as the target of the link randomly changes from the user’s perspective once pages get created. Once you create the page here, the target changes. Note also that you may think you are linking to Wiki B when Wiki A comes along and creates the page; if Wiki A is higher priority, all of a sudden the target changes on you. And when you change the InterMap order, it also will modify a lot of links *invisibly.* Also, now there is no convenient way to create the page MeatBall on your wiki. Be consistent and be visible. Ward’s and Steve’s implementation of TwinPages makes a lot more sense in that respect. – SunirShah

SunirShah

That is correct, unfortunately. I’m now using CSS magic to distinguish this, plus a tooltip. Not perfect, but better. As tooltip example, notice the following link on Emacs Wiki: EmacsChannel. – Alex Schroeder

Alex Schroeder