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?


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