It's a new day and I'm committed to getting this wikiblog off the ground. I've written myself a Todo list for technical issues to get started with, and I think I should probably make sure to keep the content going, too.
I've been looking at Wiliki's InterWikiName feature. It's not bad -- at least it works a bit. I've figured out how to make a link to, say, Montreal without having to type out all the hard bits.
(It seems that I'm one of the few non-Japanese users of Wiliki (oops), so I've been filling in the English documentation on the Wiliki main site. It also seems that the software has a ways to go to become a real high-quality wiki engine. I hope to contribute in that vein, also!)
One thing I've noticed while thinking about Interwiki is that the good old Usemod intermap is getting long in the tooth. Wikimedia has a pretty decent Interwiki map on their meta site, and I guess the Wikimedia servers update from there automatically.
I wonder if it might make sense to implement some sort of global Interwiki map on the Wiki Index, which is rapidly becoming a canonical resource for the world-wide Wiki community. I'm going to try to suggest something there when I get time to do it.
On the personal side: it's another beautiful day today but I'm going to probably stay inside working on Wikitravel and other stuff. I've got a real sticky problem with logins on the site. Since we cache pages staticly, the only way to show whether a user is logged in or not is to look at the cookies on the page with Javascript. I still haven't figured out a sure-fire combination of cookies that shows when a user is or isn't logged in. I'm going to try to get this working soon, since the disconnect between what the Javascript says on the page and what the server thinks is growing greater each version upgrade.
On the FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar?, today is dedicated to consoude or comfrey, the regenerating herb.
Good news!
On the bloggety front, I've taken down one of my more pernicious bits of hassle in making this site work more blogwise. I added a new reader macro to Wiliki that works something like the $$index or $$cindex ones, but orders the last N pages with a particular prefix in reverse order by create-time, and shows their title, ctime, and first paragraph all together, as well as a link to each's full page. This gives the strong impression that there's some kind of blog software going on. Woohoo!
The code to make this work is pretty simple; see wiliki-journal.scm. I think people can just include that in there wiliki.cgi file, and there you go.