Actually, I don't think Wikipedia or Wikimedia Foundation has to do everything. They just need to maintain this platform: Wikipedia, just like Microsoft just needs to maintain Windows and let third party developers to develop apps for Windows.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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