Hey wikitech-l,
I finally got around to reading the August engineering report, which, as
ever, is a very useful read. However, one item did stick out to me:
[Visual editor] Ian Baker
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Raindrift> investigated
and started to work on a chat system to be integrated to the concurrent
editing interface, for collaboration and live help.
On the one hand, this seems like a potentially useful feature. On the other,
it sounds like a very controversial feature that will present new
opportunities for spam, not to mention working out a way that help can be
provided uniformly across the board.
I'd really like to read more about this project and I'm sure others would
too, but my searches thus far have been in vain. Where should I be looking?
Thanks,
Harry (User:Jarry1250)