[Foundation-l] Software idea: a "Wikipedia Explorer" that lets you browse Wikipedia and more

Jürgen Fenn schneeschmelze at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 27 22:35:29 UTC 2011


Am 27. Dezember 2011 23:24 schrieb Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Regards,
Jürgen.



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