It's been a few weeks now since I've been baking some extensions to make Mediawiki (Wikipedia's wiki engine) more "web2.0 compliant". These extensions are unofficial and, as far as I know, they were only implemented at my research group's wiki (http://www.mohid.com/wiki log:wikiguest pass:wikiguest). Since I know that these extensions might be useful for someone else, I blog them here hoping they get enough public exposure...
Here's the list of the extensions along with a live example. All examples require the same login and password given above:
-Google custom search engine. I found a hack to make it work in mediawiki ;)
http://www.mohid.com/wiki/index.php?title=Search
-Mp3 list's player in xspf format,
http://www.mohid.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xspf
-Rss feed aggregator (that one's not really mine),
http://www.mohid.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rss
-YouTube videos player.
http://www.mohid.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blog#Video
I hope I can soon turn them official at MediaWiki's site, but I still need to find time in order to document them properly. And If I don't find the time, then probably somebody else will. In the meantime, If you really want them, you can contact me.
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CiteULike: guillaume's library
Quite amazing! CiteULike is the web-based citations manager I was looking for, for quite a long-time. It's exactly like del.icio.us, except it handles peer-reviewd papers instead of simple links. The difference? Basically it stores a link with added metadata fields proper of scientific research such as author, title, journal, issue, year, etc...
As del.icio.us, it allows collaborative tagging and links sharing.
In what relates to other tools in the area, it blows out all that there is. A must have for any this-generation researcher!0Add a comment
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In the beginning, there was html (and a search engine), then God came and said: "Let form from content split" and css+xml+xsl+xhtml were created and He saw that it was good. Then God said "Let people share and broacast images, music, video, text and ideas" and WikiPedia, Flickr, YouTube, Odeo, Blogs and del.icio.us were created along with rss feeds, and He saw that people were doing good things and He saw that this was good. People from all over the world were now talking together, forming a vast network of knowledge, ideas, creativity and communication. Then God came and said "Let there be no copyright, for all the web is what We are, in all of Us" and Creative Commons licensing was created and He saw that this was good.
But then He sit back for a moment and pondered on what He did ... "Wait a minute, what about the Babel thing?"
YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us:
This clip is a bit of a brainwash, but whoever did this (some university professor) really made the link between the technology, the ideas and the people behind web 2.0. Effective propaganda, very good indeed.
I just want to stress out some concepts here: "separate form and content" is xml(+css+xsl+xhtml) technology (all declared at the W3C). "sharing news and ideas" is RSS/Atom technology. "You/We will organize all this data" is tagging and geo-tagging (Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, maps). "Rethink copyright" is true sharing (Creative Commons).3View comments
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