On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Jürgen Fenn schneeschmelze@googlemail.comwrote:
Am 27. Dezember 2011 23:24 schrieb Yao Ziyuan yaoziyuan@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.
The reason I mentioned "desktop software" is for server costs reasons. If wikipedia.org is not going to implement these features, we're supposed to create another website that: (1) mirrors Wikipedia's content (text, images, and that's huge, as I've just checked out how large Wikipedia's image base is now); (2) provides additional services such as a chat room/forum for every Wikipedia article.
I'm just an individual in China and I'm not gonna create such a mirror site and incur global traffic, which will definitely bankrupt me. So instead I'm planning a desktop-based browser that simply browses wikipedia.org and provides additional features such as ebook creation, creating a FreeNode chat room for the currently browsed Wikipedia article, creating a virtual forum in a "distributed" manner by storing each user's posts on a Blogger.com blog and retrieving article-specific posts with Google Blog Search. All these features won't involve building my own server. LOL!
Regards, Jürgen.
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