Hi all,
With the Foundation’s support, I’ve spent the last few months churning away at LiquidThreads, a new discussion system that is proposed for use on Wikimedia projects.
Essentially, it’s an attempt to marry the radical openness of the wiki paradigm with the usability and practicality of a forum-like system. As the name implies, LiquidThreads is designed [...]
Since my last post about LiquidThreads, I’ve given it a major visual makeover, making it much prettier, and more in line with what users are used to with comment threads, forums, and other similar software.
Here’s an overview of the new interface
The new interface relies on paging, rather than archiving. Instead of artificially removing a discussion [...]
Wikimedia sites will know very well the pains of managing discussion in a MediaWiki installation. Presently, like a lot of early MediaWiki, it’s a hacked together solution — make the discussion pages editable, add some niceties like signatures (with the date/time and user who made the edit), and a button at the top for creating [...]
I’ve been in Berlin at Wikimedia Deutschland’s 5th Birthday (5 Jahre, if you speak the local parlance).
At this party, I stayed with Daniel Kinzler (Duesentrieb) of Toolserver and Wikimedia DE fame. Daniel and I had lengthy conversations about plans for implementing some sort of system for bringing Wikimedia to the semantic web.
Just a quick note to mention that I’m working on a brand new preferences system for MediaWiki, the free software that runs Wikipedia.
Since it’s mostly done, I’ve activated a test setup of it over at my test wiki. Improvements include about ten bug fixes, see the tracking bug for full details (click on the links [...]