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A quick update; Wayne from COL, John from Wikia & I have been talking
about ways to revive LiquidThreads development. LQT is a proposed
replacement for MW talk pages, a first proof of concept was
implemented for the Google Summer of Code 2006. See
http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_roadmap/Improve_discussion_functio…
for some background. If all goes well, the developer who did this
initial work will be the one who finishes it.
Some other quick updates on ongoing contract work I've been involved with:
- InstantCommons (Wikimedia Commons access from any MW installation)
hopefully to be finalized by end of April / early May by a development
team in Ghana, funded by Kennisnet. Demo at:
http://141.13.22.239/ic-client/index.php/Main_Page
Code in SVN (instantcommons branch), but not very useful without
Wikimedia turning it on on their servers.
- Multilingual MediaWiki (managing many content languages in one
install) still under very active development; Charles (who is on this
list and was at the Vancouver meeting) will hopefully commit a first
version of the code into a branch soon. Prototype at:
http://mw.visc.us/
- FlaggedRevs ("stable version") extension under active development by
Joerg Baach and "VoiceOfAll" (a volunteer dev). Prototype at:
http://baach.de/phase3/
Code in SVN (FlaggedRevs extension). This project has a separate
private mailing list; please avoid giving it unnecessary publicity at
this point.
- PDF / print technology still under investigation with commitment
from COL and active negotiations with a print on demand provider who
could supply some core technology. Hope to make some progress on it
really soon now, but contract issues are complicated. :-(
- Various work on OmegaWiki.org ongoing; those interested should
follow: http://omegawiki.blogspot.com
Would be nice to get an overview on projects others are involved in or
are willing to resource in the near future.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
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