Tue, Aug 02, 2005
WikiMania Hacking Day 2
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Tidbits from the day: (JLA)
- There's now a conference blog. (JLB)
- The main order of business was Wikipedia's servers. As expected, they deal with some wild
challenges. One amusing exchange occurred between BrionVibber, one
of MediaWiki's core developers, and a guy from MySQL. Brion asked
if MySQL will ever support four-byte characters. The MySQL guy just
sort of looked at him, stunned, said no, then asked why they needed
it. Apparently, they do. There really are all types of folks using
Wikipedia. (JLC)
- We digressed for a bit this morning to talk about WikiSpam. I'm
going to try and coordinate a deeper discussions with some Wiki
developers here to collaborate on a shared blacklist. (JLD)
- Speaking of "all types of folks," here's yet another reason why I'm
loving this conference. Sixteen of us went out to dinner tonight,
representing 11 countries: the Netherlands, France, Germany,
Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, China, UK, South Africa, Australia, and
the U.S. By the way, this morning I
mentioned DelphineMenard's trilingualism. Try fluency in six
languages. I was surrounded by multilingual folks today; another
fellow was fluent in something like nine languages. It was both fun
and humbling. (JLE)
- The conference is expecting over 300 attendees and lots of
press, most of whom will start converging on this sleepy hostel
tomorrow. Wikipedia is a very big deal in Germany. (JLF)
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Posted at 4:44pm
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