Interesting to hear. Did they elaborate exactly what part they
believed was "impossible"?
Speaking of Wikitrends, I'm test running the new version on toolserver
now. It does monthly and weekly trends too (which imo are far more
interesting.) The total input size 400-500GB uncompressed, but thanks
to some clever filtering and caching a single update takes less than 5
minutes.
Link:
Feel free to spread the link around.
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 18:29, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have asked the Chapters Committee, for those
Chapters who are
membership organizations, whether they are open to members beyond
the geographical designation of the Chapter -- I believe the Chapters
Agreement and process documents indicate that they must be.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Johan Gunnarsson
<johan.gunnarsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for the late reply. Dunno really what this (I don't live in
California?) is but I want to say that I'm still interested in my
project (Popular related articles) but I'm busy atm.
Johan, on a personal note, your case was particularly disturbing to me
during the Google Summer of Code selection process, because multiple
mentors said that what you have already accomplished -- with
WikiTrends at
http://users.student.lth.se/dt05jg2/wikitrends/en/24h.html
for example -- was impossible, or harder than you could possibly
realize. You were clearly scored lower than you should have been
because of this mistake. Oddly, three members of the Foundation's
engineering and technical staff repeated the same mistake at a talk
they gave at Xerox PARC last week. I will do what it takes to see
that this mistake is corrected.
Best regards,
James Salsman