On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jim Benson wrote:

> Another interesting concept is to link 'persistent' chat with Wikis, which
> combines two ideas: the synchronous communication of the chat world
> (augmented by making the chats persistent) and the asynchronous mode of the
> Wiki. Creating a Squeak based server would facilitate a much tighter
> coupling between the two, placing them both in the same 'space' as it were.

Yes, I've had this idea in the back of my head for a while.  I'd like to
combine this with two things:
- multiple feeds into the wiki: not just chat but also mailing lists,
commit logs, issue tracking, etc
- a simple markup system so that you can, during a chat, say something
like "topic: foo", and have the rest of the chat logged to a particular
wiki page.  Of course, this same markup would be recognized in any of the
other feeds as well.  Ideally it would also have conventions for referring
directly to certain revision numbers, bug numbers, etc (see CVSTrac for a
nice example of this).

The problem with having all of this data streaming into a wiki is that you
then need to spend a lot of time editing it - you want a "refactoring wiki
browser", which is an interesting problem in itself... ;)

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Avi