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? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
