[Interwiki] MetaWiki stack

[Sunir S. <su...@su...>]

Much thanks go to Bayle for organizing the InterWiki 
workshop at WikiSym. One item we agreed to move forward 
on is a 'MetaWiki stack.'

MetaWiki is the InterWiki search engine I wrote a long
time ago. However, it does not scale as it requires a lot
of manual attention. One way to alleviate that is by
building a more complete stack of technology.

Using Martin Cleaver's WikiCrawler to find wikis,

seeded by SwitchWiki's list of wikis,

we use Bayle Shank's WikiGateway to import data,

into Sunir Shah's MetaWiki,

which crawls for new wikis via the InterMap,

and then is used to support (facilitator):
    * SisterSites (John Abbe)
    * SwitchWiki (Mark Dilley)
    * SharedAntiSpam (Eugene Eric Kim)

Here are an initial three proposed standards I've put
on the table to make this easier

    http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?AllPages
    http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterMap#Standard
    http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?LinkDatabase

They are of course open to discussion, improvement, and
help in the Meatball way. I will be making MetaWiki
open source and providing access for others to add
new statistical processes to the engine.

The objectives of the stack are to provide some common
resource that will encourage communication amongst
wiki leaders. Right now there is no intrinsic reason
for us to talk to each other aside from spam.

That being recognized, using MetaWiki to discover and
assess more blacklist feeds into the pool will be a 
good motivator to get the ball rolling.

Best,
Sunir