[Foundation-l] Software idea: a "Wikipedia Explorer" that lets you browse Wikipedia and more

Tue Dec 27 22:24:28 UTC 2011

In my original message I mentioned "a chat room and a forum for every
Wikipedia article". For chat rooms, yes, an IRC server has to be created
(or use an existing IRC network such as FreeNode). For forums, however, we
don't need a centralized forum server. Wikipedia Explorer will help the
user create a blog with Blogger.com, and put all his "forum posts" on this
blog, and call Google Blog Search to retrieve blog posts associated with a
particular Wikipedia article and then merge them into a "forum" view.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Jürgen Fenn
<schneeschmelze at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Am 27. Dezember 2011 22:39 schrieb Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com>:
> > Besides social features such as chat, discussions and resource
> > announcement/retrieval, it could also have personal features such as
> > bookmarks, ebook creation, etc., so that before the program's user base
> > becomes large enough for its social features to be really useful, a user
> > can already find the program's personal features useful.
>
> I suggest the Wikimedia Foundation set up a Diaspora pod and a
> StatusNet server for Wikimedia users to communicate. As a Wikipedian I
> would like to have my social network accounts on a Wikimedia server.
> We could also run an IRC or a Jabber server of our own for chatting.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen.
>
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