Actually, I don't think Wikipedia or Wikimedia
Foundation has to do
everything. They just need to maintain this platform: Wikipedia, just like
Microsoft just needs to maintain Windows and let third party developers to
develop apps for Windows.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Jürgen Fenn <
schneeschmelze(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Am 27. Dezember 2011 23:24 schrieb Yao Ziyuan
<yaoziyuan(a)gmail.com>om>:
In my original message I mentioned "a chat
room and a forum for every
Wikipedia article". For chat rooms, yes, an IRC server has to be
created
(or use an existing IRC network such as
FreeNode). For forums,
however, we
don't need a centralized forum server.
Wikipedia Explorer will help the
user create a blog with
Blogger.com, and put all his "forum posts" on
this
blog, and call Google Blog Search to retrieve
blog posts associated
with a
particular Wikipedia article and then merge them
into a "forum" view.
Again: No desktop software, but a cloud solution. Even though I am now
posting from a Google account, we do not need Google or indeed any
other company for that, we can do it ourserves, there are free
alternatives we can set up for the community.
The reason I mentioned "desktop software" is for server costs reasons. If
wikipedia.org is not going to implement these features, we're supposed
to create another website that:
(1) mirrors Wikipedia's content (text, images, and that's huge, as I've
just checked out how large Wikipedia's image base is now);
(2) provides additional services such as a chat room/forum for every
Wikipedia article.
I'm just an individual in China and I'm not gonna create such a mirror
site and incur global traffic, which will definitely bankrupt me. So
instead I'm planning a desktop-based browser that simply browses
wikipedia.org and provides additional features such as ebook creation,
creating a FreeNode chat room for the currently browsed Wikipedia article,
creating a virtual forum in a "distributed" manner by storing each user's
posts on a
Blogger.com blog and retrieving article-specific posts with
Google Blog Search. All these features won't involve building my own
server. LOL!
Regards,
Jürgen.
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