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Notes from Wikimania 2011

Thursday 4th of August

Wikipedia as the model for an new view of social relations Prof. Yochai Benkler

  • check citizens connect

Keynote: Sue Gardner

  • new editor coming 2012, no mark-up
  • wikipedia directly into mobiles
  • uptime 99,8 %!
  • weird, why focus on phones? new devices will have browsers as good as laptops

Extension workshop

  • basic extension stuff
  • check message (wfMsg) related to internationalization
  • use $wgRequest instead of $_get and $_post
  • collaborative watchlist, check!
  • common watchlist, CHECK
  • some band is doing soundcheck during the presentation, nice

Friday 5th of August

Mediawiki development: better editing

  • projector is not working, quite boring
  • better editor coming, theyve said the same for years now. Shouldn't be that hard.
  • check Woogle

ResourceLoader

  • reduces amount of calls from the server

Saturday 6th of August

Towards a semantic Wikipedia