[Phpwiki-talk] My talk with Jimmy Wales

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

I had to opportunity to have a little chat with Jimmy Wales, the founder 
of wikipedia, while he visited a conference in Graz, Austria.

We mostly talked about technical issues, I got some ideas, and he got 
some ideas. I still have the impression that their engine is far behind 
ours.

He basically wanted the GOOGLE_LINKS_NOFOLLOW feature to allow 
authenticated users add links without this attribute.
Only anonymous editors should be punished with that.
We already have that for some time.

He told me that someone wanted to add Captcha support.
We already have that.

I told him why not to add PageChangeNotifications per email.
mediawiki doesn't support that yet, and there exists no plugin yet.
Just a notification to some IRC channel as I remember.

He liked the ideas to allow only a certain amount of links per edit as 
anti-spam measure, he disliked SpamAssassin (as I do), but for small 
wiki's it might make sense.

He was enthusiastic about WYSIWYG editors. I explained him the technical 
difficulties, and that we are already working on the HtmlParser for one 
and a half year, and that the external perl converter is written 
together by some mediawiki folk and me. Maybe they will pick up the 
HtmlParser.php step. I have almost no time to finish that, and I'm not 
so excited about that.

He talked very enthusiastic in his official speech about the beautiful 
colored diff. A library Jeff Dairiki has written for phpwiki and which 
was adopted by mediawiki. He didn't know that.

Maybe more I cannot remember now.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/