Great idea ShakataGaNai.
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From: Jon Davis
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:44 PM
To: Wikinews mailing list
Subject: [Wikinews-l] Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center
All,
As you may know, we Wikinewsies are the most technologically advanced of any group.
We've got a bunch of tech toys, and some of the coolest gadgets. One of the problems
with all our toys is that the source code is stored...everywhere. Some of the scripts
aren't even published publicly. This isn't a problem on day to day activity, but
what if a person leaves the project, goes MIA or god forbid something worse happens to
them.
So I've started the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center. Really, the core goal
of this "project" is to get all the source code for all our goodies in one
place. That happens to be setup at
http://code.google.com/p/enwikinews/ . If you
aren't familiar with Google Code, basically it is a code repository, wiki and bug
tracker all rolled into one.
For improved communication, I've started #wikinews-tech on freenode and
Wikinews-Tech-L on Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/wikinews-tech . Some
have asked the usefulness of Yet Another Mailing List. It may or may not be useful, but
at least this way we can send more regular emails about technical things
(bitch/moan/complain about Javascript breaking) and not irritate everyone.
.......
So, how does this effect you? If you care about technology, write scripts, apps and
etc... feel free to stop by. I'm happy to give anyone that wants to code, commit
access. You can stop by IRC, mail me off list...what ever. If you don't care about
technology, coding or anything of that jazz, feel free to ignore us.
--
Jon
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