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 [...]
So, that was Wikimania.
I’ve just finished up a week in Beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Wikimedia held its annual conference, Wikimania. I think the best way to describe it is “Crazy fun”.
Highlights (the sessions)
Richard Stallman (enough said).
Finding out some of the stuff Kate and Ævar have been doing on OSM.
Chatting to Christian about DBpedia, an [...]
I learned yesterday that Scott, the husband of my good friend Betsy, finally succumbed to lung cancer (he was not a smoker) at the premature age of 33.
I can’t be nearly as eloquent as Phoebe, but it would be perverse for me not to post something of what little I know of Scott. I met [...]
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.