#meta 2026-02-24

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gRegor what is itch.io
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "itch.io" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "itch.io is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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gregorlove.com created /itch.io (+305) "stub" (view diff)
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gregorlove.com edited /Bandcrash (-15) "wikilink /itch.io" (view diff)
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gregorlove.com edited /ICS (+21) "/* Tools */ fix: h-event, or a feed of them" (view diff)
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[morgan] Just curious, for a little self education, what more would you be looking for out of this article to unmake it a stub? https://indieweb.org/zine
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gRegor I'm not sure we have much written up on when a page graduates from being a stub.
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gRegor I don't see it on a skim of /wikify at least
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gRegor Personally I'm not sure I'd view that as a goal (removing the stub). In practice, vast majority of our pages have it and I kinda view it as an invitation to edit, heh
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[tantek] One reasonable backstop for such questions is "What Would Wikipedia Do?"
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[tantek] so we don't have to replicate all of Wikipedia's editing/collaboration conventions 🙂
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[morgan] Good points about it not being a goal necessarily, and also to look at what wikipedia does
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[morgan] thanks, just was curious 🙂. Hoping a few more people want to hop in and edit the page, one person did a few days ago
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[tantek] yes, multiple contributors is a helpful indicator
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gregorlove.com edited /ICS (+94) "/* Tools */ +Granary issue" (view diff)
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[artlung] good pages can still be stubs, no need to make that a goal. just keep it relevant and useful to indieweb and point at good external resources.
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[artlung] In terms of zine makers off the top of my head zacharykai and britt coxon are both zine makers. I believe fractal kitty as well. in an ideal world more folks who are indieweb (do some indiewebifying) make and publish zines, and document it, and even put them up -- on their websites. 🙂
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btrem The wiki ICS page https://indieweb.org/ICS has this line: "You may want to publish a private (by obscurity) ICS feed on your site in order to subscribe to it from". Couldn't someone publish a private ics feed by using http auth? Is there some reason why that's there?
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gRegor could, certainly. An obscure URL is going to be much easier for most people though
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gRegor Can definitely be expanded, especially if there's examples or how-to
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tantek.com edited /ICS (+25) "/* Why */ link capability URL" (view diff)
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[tantek] what is a capability URL?
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Loqi A Capability URL (AKA magic link, hard to guess URL, or secret URL) is a URL that provides access to a resource to anyone who has the URL without an explicit login https://indieweb.org/capability_URL
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[tantek] btrem if you have an opinion (or a blog post!) on adv/disadv of http auth vs capability URLs, please add ^
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btrem I don't know that I have a strong opinion. I was just surprised that the "How" section only mentioned the obscure thing. I thought maybe I was missing something, like http auth wasn't compatible with ical or something. (BTW, I never heard the term capability URL.)
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btrem Sorry, the "Why" section, not the "How" section.
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btrem Hmm, now that I think about it, I seem to recall that, in fact, Google calendar does *not* handle http auth. Though iOs and macOs do.
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gRegor And Thunderbird, I believe, from our little proof of concept test a while back.
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gRegor Correct on gCal not supporting it
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[artlung] > _"Use this address to access this calendar from other applications without making it public. Warning: You should not give the secret address to other people. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37648?hl=en_
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[artlung] > _You can reset this address and make the current one invalid._
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[artlung] (that's the language Google uses)
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btrem Yes, and Thunderbird. And Ubuntu's Calendar app, too.
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[artlung] (to describe a secret keyed url)
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btrem Right. That's what I recall. I'
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btrem.com edited /ICS (+204) "/* Why */ Add http auth as an option to keep h-events private" (view diff)
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gregorlove.com edited /Google_Calendar (-111) "flatten and reformat a bit: How section and IndieWeb Examples section at same level" (view diff)
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btrem.com edited /ICS (+29) "/* Why */ Adds additional calendar apps" (view diff)
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btrem.com edited /ICS (+18) "/* Why */ Move privacy options to a subsection" (view diff)
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gregorlove.com edited /Google_Calendar (+361) "start features section to note sync, subscribe, and no http basic authn on subscribe" (view diff)
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gRegor Thanks [artlung], started a features section with that info
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michaelkupietz.com edited /chat-names (+99) "/* J-L */" (view diff)
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capjamesg aaronpk I did a write-up of Dopplr colours and mentioned your city names colour calculator: https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/24/dopplr-colours
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capjamesg [edit] aaronpk I did a write-up of Dopplr colours and mentioned your city names colour calculator: https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/24/dopplr-colours
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[tantek] capjamesg++ great write-up!
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Loqi capjamesg has 24 karma in this channel over the last year (193 in all channels)
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capjamesg Thank you!!
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[tantek] I thought we had a wiki page on them but I guess not
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tantek.com edited /cities (+5) "/* IndieWebCamp city colors */ linky" (view diff)
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tantek.com edited /Dopplr (+343) "document Colors in a subsection" (view diff)
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lastencore.org created /indie-config-ja (+14652) "[[indie-config]]翻訳" (view diff)
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capjamesg [tantek]++ great addition.
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lastencore.org created /h-entry-ja (+11264) "[[h-entry]]翻訳" (view diff)
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lastencore.org created /h-feed-ja (+27244) "[[h-feed]]翻訳" (view diff)
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capjamesg What is a questionnaire?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "questionnaire" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "questionnaire is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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capjamesg A questionnaire is a list of questions that you may answer on your personal websites.
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Loqi ok
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loqi.me created /questionnaire (+110) "prompted by capjamesg and dfn added by capjamesg" (view diff)
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jamesg.blog edited /questionnaire (+286) "create questionnaire page" (view diff)
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capjamesg quiz << [[questionnaire]]
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Loqi ok, I added "[[questionnaire]]" to the "See Also" section of /quiz https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=109087&oldid=100003
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capjamesg questionnaire << [[quiz]]
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Loqi ok, I added "[[quiz]]" to the "See Also" section of /questionnaire https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=109088&oldid=109086
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jamesg.blog created /events/2026-02-21-hwc-writing (+13301) "archive notes" (view diff)
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capjamesg What is HWC Writing Edition?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "HWC Writing Edition" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "HWC Writing Edition is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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capjamesg HWC Writing Edition is an online meetup about writing on the web, typically hosted on a weekend every month or two.
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Loqi ok
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loqi.me created /HWC_Writing_Edition (+142) "prompted by capjamesg and dfn added by capjamesg" (view diff)
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jamesg.blog edited /HWC_Writing_Edition (+704) "add what we talk about, note taking notes, and more" (view diff)
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kaja.sknebel.net edited /User:Kaja.sknebel.net/upcoming-hwcs (+192) "update from events.indieweb.org" (view diff)
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artlung.com edited /Front_End_Study_Hall (+70) "/* To-Study List! */ Sprites on the Web" (view diff)
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artlung.com edited /Front_End_Study_Hall (+111) "/* To-Study List! */ color cycling animation technique" (view diff)
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artlung.com edited /User:Artlung.com (+130) "/* IndieNews Posts */ Feed Patterns. A collection of patterns of ATOM or RSS Feeds I have found.'" (view diff)
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artlung.com edited /Front_End_Study_Hall (+65) "/* To-Study List! */ x86 CPU made in CSS" (view diff)
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capjamesg [artlung]++ for hosting FrESH!
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Loqi [[IndieWeb]] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IndieWeb&diff=1340260885&oldid=prev ClaimTracer: Moved a sentence about the suite of tools the community uses up to the lead.
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artlung.com edited /Obsidian (+189) "/* See Also */ NoteDiscovery open source alternative" (view diff)
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artlung.com edited /Obsidian (+12) "adding some wiki cross links to dfn" (view diff)