Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) was across the aisle from me and directly ahead of John and Matt on the way back from DrupalCon. We had a nice conversation. Some of the highlights: - He is interested in taxonomy, especially the possibility of syndicated and synchronized vocabularies. - He said it would be great if we had the ability to make a special syntax like double-brackets link automatically to Wikipedia. I briefly explained our filter system, and said that if he wanted we could knock out such a filter in an afternoon. Looking in contrib, it looks like interwiki.module can do this already; maybe it's just a matter of code review. - If we have need for writing-based tasks (like translation), he may be able to provide some manpower for us in that area. - "So, could I use this for my blog?" "Yes!" - He talked a bit about Wikinews, and how it's silly to have a news site without RSS, but the wiki format causes updates to be too frequent to make RSS sensible. He wants to move finished articles out of the wiki and into another system, and mentioned Drupal as a possibility for this. We may be getting a follow-up email at info@drupal.org. -- Jonathan Chaffer Applications Developer, structure:interactive (616) 364-7423 http://www.structureinteractive.com/
Cool :) Jonathan Chaffer wrote:
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) was across the aisle from me and directly ahead of John and Matt on the way back from DrupalCon. We had a nice conversation. Some of the highlights:
- He is interested in taxonomy, especially the possibility of syndicated and synchronized vocabularies. - He said it would be great if we had the ability to make a special syntax like double-brackets link automatically to Wikipedia. I briefly explained our filter system, and said that if he wanted we could knock out such a filter in an afternoon. Looking in contrib, it looks like interwiki.module can do this already; maybe it's just a matter of code review. - If we have need for writing-based tasks (like translation), he may be able to provide some manpower for us in that area. - "So, could I use this for my blog?" "Yes!" - He talked a bit about Wikinews, and how it's silly to have a news site without RSS, but the wiki format causes updates to be too frequent to make RSS sensible. He wants to move finished articles out of the wiki and into another system, and mentioned Drupal as a possibility for this.
We may be getting a follow-up email at info@drupal.org. --
Jonathan Chaffer Applications Developer, structure:interactive (616) 364-7423 http://www.structureinteractive.com/
Jonathan Chaffer wrote:
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) was across the aisle from me and directly ahead of John and Matt on the way back from DrupalCon. We had a nice conversation. Some of the highlights:
- He is interested in taxonomy, especially the possibility of syndicated and synchronized vocabularies. - He said it would be great if we had the ability to make a special syntax like double-brackets link automatically to Wikipedia. I briefly explained our filter system, and said that if he wanted we could knock out such a filter in an afternoon. Looking in contrib, it looks like interwiki.module can do this already; maybe it's just a matter of code review. - If we have need for writing-based tasks (like translation), he may be able to provide some manpower for us in that area. - "So, could I use this for my blog?" "Yes!" - He talked a bit about Wikinews, and how it's silly to have a news site without RSS, but the wiki format causes updates to be too frequent to make RSS sensible. He wants to move finished articles out of the wiki and into another system, and mentioned Drupal as a possibility for this.
We may be getting a follow-up email at info@drupal.org.
If he doesn't get back to us within a week, we should probably get in touch with him. It's quite an opportunity IMO. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
On 1-Mar-05, at 8:56 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
Jonathan Chaffer wrote:
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) was across the aisle from me and directly ahead of John and Matt on the way back from DrupalCon. We had a nice conversation. Some of the highlights:
- He is interested in taxonomy, especially the possibility of syndicated and synchronized vocabularies. - He said it would be great if we had the ability to make a special syntax like double-brackets link automatically to Wikipedia. I briefly explained our filter system, and said that if he wanted we could knock out such a filter in an afternoon. Looking in contrib, it looks like interwiki.module can do this already; maybe it's just a matter of code review. - If we have need for writing-based tasks (like translation), he may be able to provide some manpower for us in that area. - "So, could I use this for my blog?" "Yes!" - He talked a bit about Wikinews, and how it's silly to have a news site without RSS, but the wiki format causes updates to be too frequent to make RSS sensible. He wants to move finished articles out of the wiki and into another system, and mentioned Drupal as a possibility for this.
We may be getting a follow-up email at info@drupal.org.
If he doesn't get back to us within a week, we should probably get in touch with him. It's quite an opportunity IMO.
I agree. great opportunity and worthwhile to follow up on. -- James Walker :: http://www.walkah.net/
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Ross Kendall