Hello everybody, just joined the list today after
getting back from
vacation. Thanks to Carol Moore for advertising this list on WikiProject
Feminism.
I'm in the U.S. and work for the Wikimedia Foundation as a software
developer. I'm also a long time community member and an administrator on
English Wikipedia, Commons, and Meta.
I'm really excited to see so much interest in this topic. Looking
forward to hearing everyone's thoughts and ideas.
Ryan Kaldari
Ok, here's a software project for you:
Add the code from a MUD, perhaps LPMUD which creates a telnet screen with
talker capacity giving the ability to instantly "tell" a message to
another user who is logged in. You might need a "who" function to see who
is logged on, and a way of telling if they are idle or actively engaged,
this is in MUD code. Create a "newbie" channel on which new users could
communicate instantly with experienced users who logged on to the
channel. There could be other channels too, for specific projects or
tasks. MUD code provides for logging.
This duplicates IRC I know, but I'm thinking of something much simpler
using telnet. I'm thinking of this as a small window which would display
or not within the page presented to the user.
The point is to have a way for new users to immediately inform
experienced users if they run into trouble.
Further discussion here and on wiki is advisable, of course, doubtless
there are dynamic aspects of this I'm not thinking of.
Fred Bauder