David McCabe's Summer of Code Blog
I was accepted into Summer of Code 2006 to implement a new discussion system in MediaWiki. This is my story.Monday, August 21, 2006
End of SOC Status Report
Well, today the Google gig is over. Don't worry; I intend to stick with the project at least until LQT is on the English Wikipedia. The status of the project is:
Advice for next year's SOC mentors: Send your students to a conference!
- There is an alpha that works now.
- I am refactoring the program; it will be significantly more flexible and maintainable in a week or two when that is finished.
- LQT will need to work in multiple modes and configurations. For example, on some sites they don't want nested threads, but on others they need it. With the new design I just mentioned, both groups can be satisfied.
- We are scrapping several features, most notably the arbitrary ordering of comments, for the time being. Nobody seems to care about them, they're difficult to protect from abuse, and they can be added later.
- I am contemplating how categories or something like them could be used together with saved searches or something like them to make life on Wikipedia a lot easier.
Advice for next year's SOC mentors: Send your students to a conference!
posted by David McCabe # 12:48 PM 
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It would be pointless, because I'm in the process of changing everything right now. Thanks for asking, though. Hopefully a demo will be up soon; however, I have learned that promising demos at such and such a date leads to hacking the code for demoability, which only slows things down.
Hi David,
Are you still interested in learning about general semantics?
I have a private e-mail list to introduce its main principles and practice.
Let me know if you're still interested. I was cruising blogs (9.12.06) and found your 2005 comments.
estelle937@yahoo.com
Are you still interested in learning about general semantics?
I have a private e-mail list to introduce its main principles and practice.
Let me know if you're still interested. I was cruising blogs (9.12.06) and found your 2005 comments.
estelle937@yahoo.com
# posted by 
: 4:26 PM, September 12, 2006
: 4:26 PM, September 12, 2006
Well, it's been a month... Do you have something to look at? I need to add threaded comments to my wiki and I'd really hate to duplicate your work...
# posted by : 2:08 PM, October 02, 2006
: 2:08 PM, October 02, 2006
ACK.
Thanks very much for your interest. I am making an announcement concerning LQT in the next couple of weeks -- as soon as I know just what the announcement will be.. Stay tuned. Thanks again.
By the way, I'm getting heavily spammed, so I'm turning off anonymous posting. Very sorry; I know it's inconvenient.
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Thanks very much for your interest. I am making an announcement concerning LQT in the next couple of weeks -- as soon as I know just what the announcement will be.. Stay tuned. Thanks again.
By the way, I'm getting heavily spammed, so I'm turning off anonymous posting. Very sorry; I know it's inconvenient.
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