Thanks for the report. I guess with having this one and the previous one so close together we're getting lots of exciting news all together.
We provided feedback to Luca de Alfaro regarding his trust computation tool and potential integration into Wikimedia Foundation websites.
This is a really exciting project that I've been following on wikiquality-l (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquality-l). If we can get it integrated satisfactorily with MediaWiki, it will be a great tool to use beside FlaggedRevs (speaking of which, where are all the sysadmins, cough, cough?!).
Further refinements have been made to the PediaPress Wiki-to-PDF tools to get them ready for production usage.
Again, some exciting developments here. I'm not thrilled with how this has been implemented, but it gets the job done, and that's a helluva lot better than the position we were in before (/me recalls the hours spent with LaTeX for one PDF version of a wikibooks).
We have developed one primary grant proposal related to usability and public outreach.
Can we get more details on this? Usability and public outreach are hot topics right now, for myself especially.
Again, thanks for keeping us updated.
-Mike
2008/10/21 Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm:
This is a really exciting project that I've been following on wikiquality-l (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquality-l). If we can get it integrated satisfactorily with MediaWiki, it will be a great tool to use beside FlaggedRevs (speaking of which, where are all the sysadmins, cough, cough?!).
It could be very useful. I feel the most interesting aspect of any history analysis tool is the addition of blamemap features to make it super-easy to find out who edited a particular piece of text. Luca's toolkit does include that. It's not something we can currently put a lot of resources towards, but Brion did send detailed feedback to Luca that would help if he wants to get it ready for integration.
We have developed one primary grant proposal related to usability and public outreach.
Can we get more details on this? Usability and public outreach are hot topics right now, for myself especially.
It's still in the back and forth stage of the grant process. On the technical side, what we're looking at right now is a set of improvements targeting people without prior wiki editing experience to help them contribute. Some of that work will be informed by active user testing (giving people a few typical wiki tasks and observing where they fail), and some we already know (let's try to create an editor that finds intelligent ways to hide/collapse the scariest syntax). On the outreach side, since that report was written, we've decided to remove and postpone the outreach part of the grant for a potential follow-up proposal.
So it's all still very much in discussion, and as those processes always are, you only know that things are going ahead when they do. ;-)
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