As a person who edits MediaWiki wikis: thank you for hacking! As volunteer development coordinator: \o/ for getting your friends involved and sprinting together!
-Sumana
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Last week I collaborated with some local hackers on putting realtime collaborative editing into MediaWiki. That is, where a number of people can be editing the same article at once, and seeing each others' changes in real time.
We've been using Etherpad a lot at the WMF so we wanted to see what would happen if this style of editing were brought to wikis. I had some friends of friends who have an Etherpad-derivative startup called Hackpad. We got together and decided to do a sprint for a couple of days on this idea....