Having just watched the talk/show/discussion/dancing, I agree completely with Steve's comments on wikien-l:
On 29 May 2009, at 04:52, Steve Bennett wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&eurl=http%3A%2F% > 2Fwave.google.com%2F&feature=player_embedded > > (See from about 31:00 onwards for the relevant bit...) > > Real-time collaborative editing. Scroll back and forth through > history, showing changes by a single user or of a single paragraph. > Embedded comments updated in real time. Edit from multiple clients. > > Could we please have all of this? This is several orders of magnitude > better than MediaWiki's collaborative editing features. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > I'm not so sure about the rest of the wave idea (I dislike being trapped within a browser rather than using the whole of a computer's interface, and I'm vary wary about the apparent lack of interaction with existing systems and the whole client-server interaction), I thought that the interface was amazing. I would love to see a Wikipedia article develop along the lines of the play back option; it would be great to be able to instantly edit Wikipedia, and see other people's edits in real time (although real- time vandalism could be interesting...). Being able to drag-and-drop images into an article/onto Commons from a desktop, or from elsewhere on the web, would be a real timesaver. Could this be considered by the Usability team, or is this way beyond their scope? Could we ask Google nicely to come up with a brand new interface for mediawiki? ;-) Mike On 29 May 2009, at 20:10, Milos Rancic wrote: > Probably, some of you already saw that Google made something for which > I think that it will be the new form of the mainstream Internet > perception. You may read Slashdot article [1], a good description at > the blog "Google Operating System" [2] (not officially connected with > Google) and, of course, you may see the official site with more than > one hour of presentation [3]. > > I expected such kind of tool (a client connected with others via P2P > XML-based protocol; with servers for identification). However, I > didn't expect that i will come so soon, that it will be done by one > large corporation and that it will be done at the right way: open > protocol, free software referent implementation. > > At the official site they said that it will start to work during this > year. As one large corporation is behind the project, as well as free > and open source community is able to participate, I have no doubts > that it will be implemented all over the Internet (and not just > Internet) very quickly. Probably, in two years the basic component of > one modern operating system will not be a Web browser, but a Wave > client. Probably, Web will become a storage system, while all of the > interaction will be done via Waves. > > This development of Internet is very strongly related to the > Wikimedia projects: > * I want to be able to edit Wikipedia through the Wave client. > * I want to add my own notes to articles, history of articles etc. > * I want to have collection of my knowledge at one place, including > Wikipedia articles and my notes. > * I want to be able to make a program which would analyze articles on > Wikipedia and to give program and/or analysis to my friends. > * I want many more things to be browsable or editable or whatever from > a Wave client... > > All of those my (but, in one year, not just my) wishes may be > fulfilled just through work on MediaWiki and Pywikipediabot. So, I am > calling all of you who are willing to think about it or who are at the > position to think about it -- to start with thinking :) > > [1] - http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/28/1912226/Googles-Wave- > Blurs-Chat-Email-Collaboration-Software > [2] - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-wave.html > [3] - http://wave.google.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
