Suggest new InterSiteLinkRules

The InterSiteLinkRules topic can only be edited by members of the TWikiAdminGroup. Please add suggestions for new interwiki links here.

Each suggestion must be of format:
| alias | URL | Tooltip text |

Alias:	URL:	Tooltip Text:
Example	http://somewhere.foo.com/cg-bin?q=	'$page' on Foo (just an example)
		'$page' on
		'$page' on

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Feb 2001

Comments and Questions about this topic

This may sound like a lot of work but what about integrating some central directory for the whole twiki where all external links would be grouped (as DMOZ) does and have option for exrea filelds like description. There is a fixed RDF format that all DMOZ compatible directories are using.

This topic is connected to the once initiated, but never finalised DMOZ plugin development.

-- ZeljkoBlace - 07 Oct 2002

Lathi wiki added - see Lathi:WebHome. The link format supplied assumes that the Main web is the target of all links, by the way.

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Dec 2002

Added CVSplugins. You might want a CVSplugins get as well. I use CVSplugins: syntax on PluginsInCVS, so I hope you adopt or do sitewide replace on it!

-- MartinCleaver - 17 Jan 2003

I've been playing around with the suggestions made on

• http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/help/online.html

The best I could come up with is:

YMSGR

http://edit.yahoo.com/config/send_webmesg?.src=pg&.target=

Yahoo Msg $page

-- can this please get into the Interwiki table?

But what I really wanted was:

YMSGRreal

Yahoo Msg $page

It would be really nice to allow users to embed yahoo messenger invocations just by saying (for example) YMSGR:mrjcleaver, but to get the full effect (with the indication of whether the user is online) the second invocation would need to be supported.

I guess there are equivalent web interfaces to msn messenger (MMSGR:?) and (AMSGR:?) and jabber. I guess a unified Interwiki syntax could be invoked by the user like MSGR:Y:mrjcleaver.

-- MartinCleaver - 04 May 2003

The instant messenging feature sounds more like a Plugin to me. User defines a setting in his/her home page like:

• Yahoo IM: mrjcleaver
• AOL IM: mcleaver

and can be queried with the user's WikiName like %IM{MartinCleaver}%, regardless of the user's IM tool.

-- PeterThoeny - 09 May 2003

Okay, thanks.

The CPAN link no longer works. The new prefix is:

• http://search.cpan.org/search?query=

-- MartinCleaver - 07 June 2003

Thanks for the alert. Is updated.

Hmm, CPAN:Net-vCard shows 4710 hits, not just the Net::vCard module. Is there a different URL to get just the module info?

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Jun 2003

The recent change seems to have broken CPAN links for various examples such as CPAN:HTML::Template and CPAN:CGI, which used to work fine, so I have reverted this for now.

The reverted URL works for CPAN:Net::vCard but not CPAN:Net-vCard - this is because Net-vCard is a CPAN distribution, not a module, and the perldoc tool works on modules only. This is not a big deal, as you can get to the latest distribution for a given module with a single click from the perldoc page. However, perhaps there should be a CPANdist:Net-vCard type InterWiki link? Using a URL like http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Net-vCard&mode=dist produces fewer hits by only searching for CPAN distributinos, but is still not an exact search.

It would be useful if people suggesting changes to otherwise working links can provide examples of exactly how they appear to be broken, and test any suggested new URL with a number of different examples - best done in pages such as CPANInterWikiIssues.

-- RichardDonkin - 07 Jun 2003

here's a "patch" for InterWikis (and i guess the InterSiteLinkRules topic at this site?) the CommentPlugin is used to make InterWikis entry easier. it doesn't look very pretty, but the template can be improved independently of the InterWikis page (its been added to UserTemplates, but should be moved to CommentsTmpl if this patch is accepted). also, i like the fact that "Locally-added Inter-Wiki links" will take precendence over entries shipped with TWiki.

-- WillNorris - 05 Oct 2004

heya guys! don't you want this nifty patch???

-- WillNorris - 11 Oct 2004

Matt, it looks cool

Nevertheless I prefer the flexibility to insert a intersite link rule anywhere in any of the three tables. Also, we add new rules infrequently.

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Oct 2004

this improvement isn't really directly for twiki.org; it's something that i'd like to see new in releases. agreed, it is much more handy for new installations than it would be for twiki.org.

you can continue to insert an intersite link rule anywhere in any of the three tables, using the existing technique of hand editting the table. i thought i'd try to provide a timesaving device for the most common case (and, who really likes editting tables by hand? if you're not interested in the table entry, perhaps the tables could be made edittable inline?)

-- WillNorris - 12 Oct 2004

Inter-Wiki Link Rules (or Links to other Sites)

This topic lists all aliases needed to map Inter-Site links to external wikis/sites.

Whenever you write ExternalSite:Page it will be linked automatically to the page on the external site. The link points to the URL corresponding to the ExternalSite alias below, concatenated to the Page you choose. Example: Type Wiki:RecentChanges to get Wiki:RecentChanges, the RecentChanges page at the original Wiki site.

Locally-added Inter-Wiki Links

Alias:	URL:	Tooltip Text:
Testingstandards	http://www.testingstandards.co.uk/$page.htm	Testing Standards website page
Perlcookbook	http://iis1.cps.unizar.es/Oreilly/perl/cookbook/$page.htm
WordNet	http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.0?stage=1&word=	Definition of $page on WordNet
NTP	http://ntp.isc.org/	'$page' in the NTP Public Services Project site

How to define Inter-Site links

• Inter-Site links are defined in the tables below.
• Each entry must be of format:
  | External site alias | URL | Tooltip help text |.
• The URL and Tooltip Text may contain optional $page variables; the variable gets expanded to the page name.
• Note: The Tooltip Text must not contain any HTML tags (including <nop> escape code), no internal WikiWord links, and no external links. Hint: Escape 'WikiWords' and '$page'.

General Inter-Site Links

-- WillNorris - 05 Oct 2004

What about technorati tags? Something like

Except

1. it doesn't work
2. it doesn't allow a tag with spaces in.

Suggestions?

-- AdamSpiers - 29 Jun 2005

Done. The Plugin creates the link, you only need to specify the plain URL.

Use "+" plus sign instead of space, e.g. Technorati:Computers+and+Internet

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Jun 2005

I found that the ISBN alias was no longer working...turns out that it was an affiliate link of some sort, which is bad taste anyway. I was going to change it to a link to amazon.com, but found a more reseller-neutral site that handles ISBN lookups and does an optional price check.

-- ScottAlfter - 03 Aug 2007

Thanks Scott for the heads-up. I replaced it with a popular website for book search, http://www.bookfinder.com/

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Aug 2007