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