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- tav <tav@espians.com> Jul 09 09:06AM +0100 ^
Hey all,
I spent the last few evenings hacking together a collaboration app on
top of MediaWiki:
* http://socialstartuplabs.com/wiki/User:Tav
* http://socialstartuplabs.com/wiki/User:Tav?listing=tribe
And, surprisingly, I'm quite pleased with it. It allows you to:
* create a profile quite easily.
* create new projections or join the teams for existing ones, e.g. SolarRoof.
* define individual definitions (interpretations), intentions and
needs relating to a projection.
* follow others by adding them to your "tribe".
* see the overlapping intentions of those you're following and the
projections you're part of.
Now, I'm obviously biased, but I already find it a lot better for
actual collaboration than pretty much every other web app that I've
ever used. It takes a few minutes to get used to — but as long as one
is familiar with MediaWiki, it seems easy enough to use. Pretty much
all of the "underlying plumbing" is hidden away.
The app is a partial implementation of the Confluence model that came
out of 24weeks in 2007. It's also a rework of the same MediaWiki hack
we did back then. It makes heavy use of MediaWiki's transclusions
support (thanks Erik!) and, this time round, I sullied myself by
writing my first ever lines of PHP to create an extension that
improves the usability substantially.
Anyways, I'd love to know what everyone else makes of it. Signing up
is very easy:
* http://socialstartuplabs.com/wiki/Special:UserLogin?type=signup
It'll automatically create a profile page for you and on the right
hand side, you'll find links which will help you fill in some details
— name, info, contact details and profile picture. After that, just
find/create projections and join them — and find people and add them
to your tribe.
Then just keep your intentions/needs updated on your profile — use the
wiki for adding relevant content — and use the tribe view to keep
track of what those you're interested in are up to.
Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
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