Interesting to hear. Did they elaborate exactly what part they believed was "impossible"?
Speaking of Wikitrends, I'm test running the new version on toolserver now. It does monthly and weekly trends too (which imo are far more interesting.) The total input size 400-500GB uncompressed, but thanks to some clever filtering and caching a single update takes less than 5 minutes.
Link: http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrends/english-uptrends-this-week.html
Feel free to spread the link around.
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 18:29, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I have asked the Chapters Committee, for those Chapters who are membership organizations, whether they are open to members beyond the geographical designation of the Chapter -- I believe the Chapters Agreement and process documents indicate that they must be.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Johan Gunnarsson johan.gunnarsson@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for the late reply. Dunno really what this (I don't live in California?) is but I want to say that I'm still interested in my project (Popular related articles) but I'm busy atm.
Johan, on a personal note, your case was particularly disturbing to me during the Google Summer of Code selection process, because multiple mentors said that what you have already accomplished -- with WikiTrends at http://users.student.lth.se/dt05jg2/wikitrends/en/24h.html for example -- was impossible, or harder than you could possibly realize. You were clearly scored lower than you should have been because of this mistake. Oddly, three members of the Foundation's engineering and technical staff repeated the same mistake at a talk they gave at Xerox PARC last week. I will do what it takes to see that this mistake is corrected.
Best regards, James Salsman