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.
Regards, Jürgen.