On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Jürgen Fenn <schneeschme...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Am 27. Dezember 2011 23:24 schrieb Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com>: > > 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. > > Again: No desktop software, but a cloud solution. Even though I am now > posting from a Google account, we do not need Google or indeed any > other company for that, we can do it ourserves, there are free > alternatives we can set up for the community. > The reason I mentioned "desktop software" is for server costs reasons. If wikipedia.org is not going to implement these features, we're supposed to create another website that: (1) mirrors Wikipedia's content (text, images, and that's huge, as I've just checked out how large Wikipedia's image base is now); (2) provides additional services such as a chat room/forum for every Wikipedia article. I'm just an individual in China and I'm not gonna create such a mirror site and incur global traffic, which will definitely bankrupt me. So instead I'm planning a desktop-based browser that simply browses wikipedia.org and provides additional features such as ebook creation, creating a FreeNode chat room for the currently browsed Wikipedia article, creating a virtual forum in a "distributed" manner by storing each user's posts on a Blogger.com blog and retrieving article-specific posts with Google Blog Search. All these features won't involve building my own server. LOL! > > Regards, > Jürgen. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l