Dear Mr. David Strauss,<br><br>May us have your suggesion on Hacking Days Extra 2007?<br>If you have time, please leave some outlines of your advises to<br><a href="http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning/Hacking_Days_Extra_2007">
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning/Hacking_Days_Extra_2007</a><br><br>Thank you. :)<br><br> Sincerely,<br>Mike<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/2/6, David Strauss <<a href="mailto:david@fourkitchens.com">
david@fourkitchens.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'd like to see if we can punch out some community collaboration systems
<br>to replace some rather ugly and complicated templates on Meta. For<br>example, internationalization efforts could really use a system that<br>allows people to register what translations they can do and<br>automatically contact volunteers to help translation projects. If
<br>translations also happened in the system, it could export translation<br>files in .pot and various MediaWiki-friendly formats for immediate use.<br>Translation language priorities would be far simpler to establish. Even
<br>the workflow of creating, editing, and verifying translations could be<br>encoded into the system. Maybe <a href="http://i18n.wikimedia.org">i18n.wikimedia.org</a>?<br><br>I'd also like to create a citation- and source-tracking system where
<br>people can debate sources and interpretations in a central system. Right<br>now, these debates are sprinkled over article and policy talk pages.<br>Worse still, once the debates get archived, newcomers just repeat them.
<br>Maybe <a href="http://references.wikimedia.org">references.wikimedia.org</a>?<br><br>These projects could be implemented as MediaWiki special pages or Drupal<br>modules. (Other systems could work, too, but I'd have to learn them.)
<br>Hopefully SUL migration will be finished by WikiMania 2007 so users<br>won't need new accounts for new systems.<br></blockquote></div><br>