Here's an interesting project that bears many similarities to Nupedia and Wikipedia:
Another website that concerns the intersection of the open source movement and education is:
http://www.opensourceschools.org/
I wrote an article for the latter website:
http://opensourceschools.org/article.php?story=20011020160315930
Larry
OK - if you'll look you'll notice that I've been in the new meta environment all day. It is FANTASTIC - I really like it.
A few minor bugs however...
1 - On the preferences tab, there is no option to reset the time that I could find - I am 19 (!) hours ahead of the server and it is really frustrating to have to read the wrong time (from my perspective) all the time.
2 - When you create a new profile, the welcome message has a spelling error: "Don't forget to personalize your wikipedia perferences!" - should be "preferences". (I created the dummy account "Test delete please" while verifying this - please delete it)
3 - Someone needs to write the help page and the help page for the user preferences tab. I stayed out of it, due to inferior expertise. Apologies for the "where's the help then" remark :)
4 - I'd prefer to see the Page Titles in blue and bold as they are on the old Wikipedia - it just looks better.
5 - The star trek skin is cool, but hard to read. Different font colours would be nice. Is there someway we can add more skins?
6 - is there ever going to be an easy way to link between the two environments? Say using [[[ (a triple bracket) or even something weird like %% to indicate links to the opposite environment. I've moved a bunch of pages, but it is just too daunting to go through and rebuild all the links just yet... I'll get around to it.
Apologies if I am sounding picky - so let me restate that the new software utterly ROCKS! Absolutely... I can't wait until we port the full Wikipedia to it.
Manning
First, thanks for the praise! Makes an ol' programmer happy :)
I fixed #1 and #2 (and #4, partially) from your list. It's running on wikipedia.sourceforge.com, and I mailed the updated files to Jason.
Concerning #5, currently the skins (normal and Star Trek) are coded within the source (file "wikiUser.php"). Adding or adjusting a skin is easy, but for now, maybe we should stick to these two until the rest of the damned thing is running OK ;)
#6 means to create a special version of the script just for meta.wikipedia.com. I might even do that, but it takes time.
Thanks again, and keep being picky ;)
Magnus -----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Manning Bartlett Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 8:40 AM To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Big thumbs up for the new meta software
OK - if you'll look you'll notice that I've been in the new meta environment all day. It is FANTASTIC - I really like it.
A few minor bugs however...
1 - On the preferences tab, there is no option to reset the time that I could find - I am 19 (!) hours ahead of the server and it is really frustrating to have to read the wrong time (from my perspective) all the time.
2 - When you create a new profile, the welcome message has a spelling error: "Don't forget to personalize your wikipedia perferences!" - should be "preferences". (I created the dummy account "Test delete please" while verifying this - please delete it)
3 - Someone needs to write the help page and the help page for the user preferences tab. I stayed out of it, due to inferior expertise. Apologies for the "where's the help then" remark :)
4 - I'd prefer to see the Page Titles in blue and bold as they are on the old Wikipedia - it just looks better.
5 - The star trek skin is cool, but hard to read. Different font colours would be nice. Is there someway we can add more skins?
6 - is there ever going to be an easy way to link between the two environments? Say using [[[ (a triple bracket) or even something weird like %% to indicate links to the opposite environment. I've moved a bunch of pages, but it is just too daunting to go through and rebuild all the links just yet... I'll get around to it.
Apologies if I am sounding picky - so let me restate that the new software utterly ROCKS! Absolutely... I can't wait until we port the full Wikipedia to it.
Manning
Magnus Manske wrote:
I fixed #1 and #2 (and #4, partially) from your list. It's running on wikipedia.sourceforge.com, and I mailed the updated files to Jason.
Just so everyone knows -- I think Jason is out of town for the weekend. He might see the stuff from Magnus and install it while he's away, but probably this will be Monday.
I'd do it myself, but I'm leaving town in a little while too.
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