On 2/29/08, David Pean <david.pean(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just wanted to let everyone know that we've
bundled up some of our
social features for Open Source, including basic profile information,
friending, and "wall" messaging". It's been tested and runnning on
sites using MW 1.10. More information can be found on the extension
page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile.
Interesting - I wonder whether it could be made suitable for
Wikipedia. Obviously WP generally discourages excessive "myspacing"
but some of the features look genuinely useful for collaboration.
Good:
Recent activity
Friends
Statistics (maybe)
Board (maybe - confusing having both a discussion page and a board)
Bad:
Foes (not sure what this really does)
Excessive user information (favourite movie or whatever)
Hmm, maybe there isn't really enough there for us - was hoping for
collaborative tools like seeing recent changes of all your "friends",
sending messages to groups of people (and having grouped replies) etc.
Steve