So I’ve just confirmed today that I’ll be attending Wikimedia Deutscheland’s second annual developer conference in Berlin, during mid-April.
I’m super-excited about catching up and going out with everyone, and then getting together and doing some really awesome things to MediaWiki by day. I know from my experiences in Buenos Aires last August and in Paris [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been working on iIrssi, which is a project of mine to give irssi push notifications on the iPhone.
Unfortunately, even when following Apple’s instructions for getting push notifications going, I ran into this error:
Error in registration. Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3000 UserInfo=0×1402f0 “no valid ‘aps-environment’ entitlement string found for application
As it turns out, I needed to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]