Re: choice of term "WikiStatus"
I think it would be good to make sure we don't equate the world of
wikis with Wikipedia. Wikipedia may be the most well-known and
important wiki, but the world of wikis as I'm sure everyone here
knows is much broader and more diverse than even Wikipedia.
I'm making this point after seeing some (influential?!) bloggers
start equating wikis with Wikipedia, which helps nobody. (Neither
will Wikipedia benefit from being equated with the LA Times desaster,
nor will wikis be helped by being viewed through Encyclopedia glasses.)
I recognize that you use WikiStatus only as a shorthand for Wikipedia
Status and spell it out most of the time, but sometimes acronyms take
on a life of their own, say if you register a domain for it.
Thanks,
Dirk
At 26.11.2005, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
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OpenFact's Wikipedia Status (
http://tinyurl.com/48a5m ) is the original
Wikipedia Status page. However, it suffers from a huge problem: it is
prohibitively unwieldly to use. The solution? Create a more streamlined
application designed for the exact task of allowing the community to
report on contingency issues. Yup... it's called WikiStatus for lack of
a more creative name.
You can view an online version of it here:
http://tinyurl.com/a62lu and
the source code is here:
http://tinyurl.com/b9z8n
I'm not sure when/how OpenFacts became the de facto standard for status
reporting, but it would be cool if we could add a link to WikiStatus
from the standard error page. Of course, it's really new software (I
consider it alpha quality) and it probably needs to be audited, but when
there's a problem, there should be multiple contingency sites.
Please check it out! Thanks. :D
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