On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2009/5/31 Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
Much of the Wave functionality demonstrated is superior to what is
available in MediaWiki. Consider a LAN with OPLC systems, consider a Wave
server on the school server.. It would be pretty damn good to be able to
have all kinds of activities that makes use of the functionality that is
part of the reference implementation. Consider what a talk page would
look
like when with the Wave "back"
functionality.
Wave has some great features for those of us that edit Wikipedia, but
we're talking about people reading it. The only way to edit it is via
a live internet connection, I can't see anything else working unless
we get some vastly improved edit conflict handling.
If you watched the Wave presentation you'll see that there is quite a bit of
edit conflict handling already built in (they showed three people editing
the same page simultaneously).
All people reading Wikipedia need is a plain HTML file
per article, nothing
more.
Easier said than done, though. The static HTML Wikipedia dumps haven't been
updated since June 2008. With Wave, updates are instantaneous.