[Phpwiki-talk] WikiLens wants YOU!

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

This is an email to get you to try WikiLens:

  ** http://www.wikilens.org

We've had 4-5 releases since I last emailed the PhpWiki list. We also have

- entries for 1705 movies. 492 albums, 396 books, 58 video games, 52 
beers, ...
- 132 users (honestly around 10 active ones)
- 8400 ratings

This is a project essentially forked from PhpWiki 1.3.9. I'd love for 
someone to look at reintegrating it (the source tarball is at 
http://www.wikilens.org/wikilens-src.tgz). There are a bunch of changes 
deep into the code, mostly about WikiDB, I think. Probably we should be 
looking at merging, but our energy ran out waiting for 1.3.11.

Dan

WikiLens (http://www.wikilens.org) is a community-maintained repository 
of opinion. Right now, opinions are expressed as ratings, comments, or 
lists, which are digested to show people useful information. For 
example, ratings are turned into recommendations, lists are mentioned on 
each item page.

Think of Amazon, Epinions, MovieLens, or other web sites about things 
(books, video games, movies, beers, vacation spots, plants, etc.) and 
what people think of them, except WikiLens is non-commercial, editable 
by all, open content, open source. Users can create items and even whole 
categories! This is a wiki + recommender + social network (your buddies 
influence your recommendations).

We are where Wikipedia was in 2001: a glorious idea to take over the 
universe. That's where you come in! There are still tons of features to 
add and bugs to squash. However, it's no fun without users, so create an 
account and try us out! Rate a few things, create some items, make some 
comments, invite some buddies. Remember, the most important thing is 
your opinions; helping with the facts are good, but ratings or reviews 
are even better. Most of all, have fun!