Notes from my terminal

WikiClientLinks

Just like blogging is done increasingly through XML-RPC clients, I expect a standard for Wiki clients to emerge in the near future. Until then, there are basically three things that come closest to a Wiki API:

1. Standalone notepad applications like VoodooPad (or the budding opensource alternative of WikiNotePad) with some sort of "sync-to-external-Wiki" feature.
2. More or less well-defined specs from various people for an universal Wiki XML-RPC API (like this page at decafbad or an alternative at JSPWiki). They all look nifty, but either they didn't get implemented or they're lacking support from the major Wiki engines.
3. The thing that will probably become the standard (my guess, anyway): Using the AtomAPI for Wiki editing with technologies like SOAP. There's an article at XML.com explaining this.

Posted by jens at April 21, 2004 09:56 AM | TrackBack