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Quick question about Recent Changes #45

Closed interstar closed 10 years ago

interstar commented 10 years ago

Just to check.

When it says : "Here we list neighborhood pages with those most recently changed listed first." on the recent changes page, that "neighbourhood" just means the wiki itself, right?

SFW isn't sending information about changes that have been made on my private wiki on my local machine, up to the cloud or the original SFW that the first page was forked from, is it?

almereyda commented 10 years ago

The neighborhood usually refers to wikis that are currently connected to your wiki client through federated links. You do see their coloured icons in the bottom-right. If there's only one icon similar to the one next to page headlines, no other wikis have been loaded.

nrn commented 10 years ago

This is from the perspective of the client. It crawls wikis it has seen to find other pages it can display. If your wiki is linked to by a page and accessible by the client it can be found in recent changes, if not it can't.

There is no mother ship to report back to. we are discussing how forking pages could track back to the original author, but nothing like that happens yet, and opinions on if/how that should happen are welcome. On Dec 15, 2013 7:58 AM, "almereyda" notifications@github.com wrote:

The neighborhood usually refers to wikis that are currently connected to your wiki client through federated links. You do see their coloured icons in the bottom-right. If there's only one icon similar to the one next to page headlines, no other wikis have been loaded.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/WardCunningham/wiki/issues/45#issuecomment-30610179 .

WardCunningham commented 10 years ago

I am often asked how one could tell if others are using their content. A similar question is, what's going on in your new wiki? I usually answer by equating the question with spying. Am I being too sensitive?

The Submit Changes mechanism will "push" content from a private site, through firewalls, to a public site. It does so with lots of ceremony.

I've considered a much more subtle push, a notice that your page has been forked, an optional complementary notice, for sure. But something that happens quietly that you might forget is even there. How dangerous is this?

http://ward.fed.wiki.org/complementary-notice-on-fork.html

interstar commented 10 years ago

Just to be clear, I'm not worried about people forking from my public wiki. They're welcome to do that.

My concern is that my personal wiki on my local machine has things like private contact information etc. in it, and I wouldn't want a mechanism that pushes that up to other wikis just because I may have forked from those other wikis in the past.

I'm reading nrn's answer as being that that can't happen, given that it shouldn't, in principle, be possible for people outside to access the server running on my machine. Am I right?

WardCunningham commented 10 years ago

Yes. Your private content is save. If you were to reference private pages on a public page then the links would work for you but show as gray-flags and broken-sitemaps to others who do not have access to your site. Here is a site where I admit to the existence of such sites on my own laptop:

http://ward.fed.wiki.org/not-yet-published-sites.html

interstar commented 10 years ago

Cool. Thanks. :-)