[Foundation-l] LiquidThreads in Beta testing at labs.wikimedia.org

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Andrew!

On Friday 02 Oct 2009 12:05:01 Andrew Garrett wrote:
> For those of us who don't follow the tech blog [1], I'm pleased to
> announce that LiquidThreads is now in beta testing in the Wikimedia
> Labs [2].
> 
> LiquidThreads is a next-generation discussion system for MediaWiki,
> which turns talk pages into a real forum, while maintaining the
> essential aspects of a wiki that make them so effective. It was
> originally developed as a Google Summer of Code project by David
> McCabe, and I've spent the last 4 months preparing it for deployment
> on Wikimedia sites, under contract from the Foundation.
> 

Sounds very good. I always found the discussions' page on MediaWiki to be 
lacking in usability, and so I've been looking forward to something like this.

Thanks to all the people who've worked on it and made it possible.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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