[Foundation-l] Recent Changes in Real Time

Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 17:13:08 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Yann Forget <yannfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I forward a mail from ThomasV.
> This tool as a potential much beyond Wikisource.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yann
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ThomasV <thomasV1 @ gmx . de>
> Date: 2010/7/9
> Subject: [Wikisource-l] Recent Changes in Real Time
> To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library"
> <wikisource-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Firefox 4 and Chrome 6 have support for Websockets.
> I wrote a websocket server that forwards Recent Changes to a web
> browser, in order to visualize them dynamically.
>
> Here is a list of pages using it:
> *[http://toolserver.org/~thomasv/rcsound.html a page that plays a sound
> everytime a page is proofread at the most active wikisources]
> *[http://toolserver.org/~thomasv/wprc.html en.WP's recent changes] (it
> scrolls kind of fast)
> *[http://toolserver.org/~darkdadaah/wiktio/outils/rc/fr_wikt_rc_table.html
> fr.wiktionary's RCs]
> If you decide to write another page that uses this server, please add it
> to the list.
>
> It is possible to use this tool directly on any Wikimedia wiki ; here is
> a script that turns the RC page of your wiki into a self-updating page:
>
>  importScriptURI('http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:DynamicRC.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
>
> I hope you enjoy it. If you decide to write a page that uses this tool,
> please add it to this list :
> https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/RC_Websocket_server
>
> Thomas
>
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Where should that importScriptURI go?
MediaWiki:Common.js ?

and what would the implications to non-capable browser users be?
would it transparently fallback on static RC?



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