I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
I posted a blog entry on why I think the filter would be so cool; I'll copy it here:
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Here's why I think wikimouse would be incredibly cool:
1. There are more great, quirky, insightful wikipedia articles than any individual could blog in a lifetime.
2. We won't need to worry at all about spam prevention, self-promotion, etc., which cuts down the workload a lot -- if users are only allowed to link to wikipedia, all that stuff is taken care of already inside the wikipedia project. Basically, there's a floor on how bad the user-submitted content can be, and no ceiling (or is that the other way around?).
3. It could be an open-source, non-profit project on donated server space, but if it's for-profit, it would be cool to programatically generate merchandise based on the wikipedia article text (I've already written a program that does this). That means we don't have to bog down the site with banner and text ads (which wouldn't work too well anyway, since the content is very diverse).
On 3/15/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Sounds like you might want to use Pligg - it can do the voting stuff: http://www.pligg.com/
Unfortunately the notability enforcement squad already got to the Wikipedia article about it ..
On 14/03/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3/15/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Sounds like you might want to use Pligg - it can do the voting stuff: http://www.pligg.com/
Unfortunately the notability enforcement squad already got to the Wikipedia article about it ..
They're clearly doing a good job of making Wikipedia a useful resource... :/
Hey, thanks; pligg looks really good. I'll see what I can hack together.
On 3/14/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3/15/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Sounds like you might want to use Pligg - it can do the voting stuff: http://www.pligg.com/
Unfortunately the notability enforcement squad already got to the Wikipedia article about it ..
-- Peace & Love, Erik
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I'm still interested if anyone knows rails, though. (Sorry about the superabundance of messages; I have a bad habit of using a listserv like a chatroom.)
On 3/14/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
Hey, thanks; pligg looks really good. I'll see what I can hack together.
On 3/14/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3/15/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Sounds like you might want to use Pligg - it can do the voting stuff: http://www.pligg.com/
Unfortunately the notability enforcement squad already got to the Wikipedia article about it ..
-- Peace & Love, Erik
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Aw, crap; one more. I do have a partially-working prototype on my laptop if anyone wants to take a look.
On 3/14/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still interested if anyone knows rails, though. (Sorry about the superabundance of messages; I have a bad habit of using a listserv like a chatroom.)
On 3/14/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
Hey, thanks; pligg looks really good. I'll see what I can hack together.
On 3/14/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3/15/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Sounds like you might want to use Pligg - it can do the voting stuff: http://www.pligg.com/
Unfortunately the notability enforcement squad already got to the Wikipedia article about it ..
-- Peace & Love, Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open, free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
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-- Ben Yates Wikipedia blog - http://wikip.blogspot.com
-- Ben Yates Wikipedia blog - http://wikip.blogspot.com
On 3/14/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Wikia is developing something like this. The articles that are displayed on the home page of our magazine-style wikis are selected by the community using digg-style voting. See http://gaming.wikia.com/ for example.
I'm not sure how this could be applied to Wikipedia since I'm assuming most Wikipedians would object to having a vote box appear on every page.
Angela
On 14/03/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure how this could be applied to Wikipedia since I'm assuming most Wikipedians would object to having a vote box appear on every page.
Would the devs regard loading the Wikipedia page in a frame as live-mirroring?
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
Would the devs regard loading the Wikipedia page in a frame as live-mirroring?
They don't need to. Unless you're logged in and had set wgBreakFrames to false, the wiki will escape itself from the frame jail.
On 3/15/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Would the devs regard loading the Wikipedia page in a frame as live-mirroring?
They don't need to. Unless you're logged in and had set wgBreakFrames to false, the wiki will escape itself from the frame jail.
wgBreakFrames is set to false on Wikipedia.
Angela: I wasn't thinking of incorporating it into wikipedia at all -- wikimouse would just link to wikipedia (and maybe exerpt it), and voting would all happen on-site.
On 3/14/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/14/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Wikia is developing something like this. The articles that are displayed on the home page of our magazine-style wikis are selected by the community using digg-style voting. See http://gaming.wikia.com/ for example.
I'm not sure how this could be applied to Wikipedia since I'm assuming most Wikipedians would object to having a vote box appear on every page.
Angela
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Hi Angela,
That gaming wiki is very impressive - have any extensions been release (or could they be) based on this website?
Best Regards, Chris
On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Angela wrote:
On 3/14/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.
Wikia is developing something like this. The articles that are displayed on the home page of our magazine-style wikis are selected by the community using digg-style voting. See http://gaming.wikia.com/ for example.
I'm not sure how this could be applied to Wikipedia since I'm assuming most Wikipedians would object to having a vote box appear on every page.
Angela
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