Harry Burt wrote:
Hey wikitech-l,
I finally got around to reading the August engineering report, which, as ever, is a very useful read. However, one item did stick out to me:
[Visual editor] Ian Baker http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Raindrift investigated and started to work on a chat system to be integrated to the concurrent editing interface, for collaboration and live help.
On the one hand, this seems like a potentially useful feature. On the other, it sounds like a very controversial feature that will present new opportunities for spam, not to mention working out a way that help can be provided uniformly across the board.
I'd really like to read more about this project and I'm sure others would too, but my searches thus far have been in vain. Where should I be looking?
Thanks, Harry (User:Jarry1250)
Indeed. I wasn't aware anyone was tasked to do such thing. I understand it may look cool, but I consider that to be a *bad* idea (I have already argued against it when it 2-3 times already). Who decided it is something to be implemented? Where's the result of that investigation?