[Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

[Brian]

How does Google Wave help the WMF achieve its goals?
Wikipedia has already become a dominant information source for the 1.5
billion people with Internet access thanks to Google.

We need to focus on getting Wikipedia to the 5.2 billion people who can't
access it.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Probably, some of you already saw that Google made something for which
> > I think that it will be the new form of the mainstream Internet
> > perception. You may read Slashdot article [1], a good description at
> > the blog "Google Operating System" [2] (not officially connected with
> > Google) and, of course, you may see the official site with more than
> > one hour of presentation [3].
> >
> > I expected such kind of tool (a client connected with others via P2P
> > XML-based protocol; with servers for identification). However, I
> > didn't expect that i will come so soon, that it will be done by one
> > large corporation and that it will be done at the right way: open
> > protocol, free software referent implementation.
> >
> > At the official site they said that it will start to work during this
> > year. As one large corporation is behind the project, as well as free
> > and open source community is able to participate, I have no doubts
> > that it will be implemented all over the Internet (and not just
> > Internet) very quickly. Probably, in two years the basic component of
> > one modern operating system will not be a Web browser, but a Wave
> > client. Probably, Web will become a storage system, while all of the
> > interaction will be done via Waves.
> >
> > This development of Internet is very strongly related to the Wikimedia
> projects:
> > * I want to be able to edit Wikipedia through the Wave client.
> > * I want to add my own notes to articles, history of articles etc.
> > * I want to have collection of my knowledge at one place, including
> > Wikipedia articles and my notes.
> > * I want to be able to make a program which would analyze articles on
> > Wikipedia and to give program and/or analysis to my friends.
> > * I want many more things to be browsable or editable or whatever from
> > a Wave client...
> >
> > All of those my (but, in one year, not just my) wishes may be
> > fulfilled just through work on MediaWiki and Pywikipediabot. So, I am
> > calling all of you who are willing to think about it or who are at the
> > position to think about it -- to start with thinking :)
> >
> > [1] -
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/28/1912226/Googles-Wave-Blurs-Chat-Email-Collaboration-Software
> > [2] - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-wave.html
> > [3] - http://wave.google.com/
> >
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> Very cool. Not sure if I buy into the "this is the future of the
> internet," but very very cool indeed.
>
> -Chad
>
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