past event: April 4 2007
No featured speaker; we took turns demonstrating cool stuff.
, then hang out, have a beer, open discussion on WikiOhana and Wiki Everywhere
Writeups:
http://www.socialtext.com/node/194
Brief writeup from Liz (longer version at blog entry)
I briefly looked at Casey's table editor hack, and then Kirsten showed me Hydra, another way to look at a wiki's contents using the REST API, and Jifty and Mason rather than Template Toolkit like Luke used: sort of a "web 1.0 view" of a wiki, live. Which made me freak with joy because it's something I've been wishing we had, and there it is - she wrote it for a hackathon in November.
Wiki Wednesday was really fun tonight, I was happy to meet everybody, fascinated by all their ideas - we demoed the wikithon hacks, then invited others to show off their projects. Leslie Wu showed several of her projects before we really got started, then demoed an exciting wiki mashup project using d.mix. Gordon McCreight showed off http://pageoftext.com, which he hacked completely in the last 24 hours. Stewart Mader walked us through some of Wiki Patterns and talked about how and why he created the site, detached from any particular platform, and how it went from something like 24 original patterns to over 50 (only 3 of which he added himself).
Jack Herrick and Betsy talked about Wikihow, and demonstrated vandalism. They have a Firefox extension in the toolbar that tattles when someone's edited a feature page, and the alert thing stops flashing as soon as 1 or 2 people patrol that page and sign off on it. (One to edit out the vandalism and another to patrol it without editing.) This was fascinating and we spent most of the rest of the evening asking Jack questions and talking about feedback mechanisms that assume people want to do good things; just give them information about what's wrong.
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