On 2/29/08, David Pean david.pean@gmail.com wrote:
I just wanted to let everyone know that we've bundled up some of our social features for Open Source, including basic profile information, friending, and "wall" messaging". It's been tested and runnning on sites using MW 1.10. More information can be found on the extension page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile.
Interesting - I wonder whether it could be made suitable for Wikipedia. Obviously WP generally discourages excessive "myspacing" but some of the features look genuinely useful for collaboration.
Good: Recent activity Friends Statistics (maybe) Board (maybe - confusing having both a discussion page and a board)
Bad: Foes (not sure what this really does) Excessive user information (favourite movie or whatever)
Hmm, maybe there isn't really enough there for us - was hoping for collaborative tools like seeing recent changes of all your "friends", sending messages to groups of people (and having grouped replies) etc.
Steve