[OWW-Discuss] Hello list! (I'm new)

[Bill F]

I've installed an extension that I'd looked at before but never used.

Check it out here:

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Sandbox1

This is a "current online users" list. The first version is pretty simple.
All it shows is the IP address (I added for debugging) and the username. The
anonymous users aren't displayed but the total counts of both the anonymous
and registered users is.

The list can be formatted as is required. Anything in the User's preference
page can be included.

To put the list on another page, just use the tag:

<whosonline></whosonline>

There's a new table in the database called 'online'. Currently the table
contains the timestamp, ip address, and the username of each logged in user.

I have some ideas, based upon some of the comments of late, about what we
can do with this. One thing is to extend it to also contain the online chat
status. I'd like to head what other people think.

We can also extend it to show a view of whos is logged into the private
wikis or who is currently logged into WordPress MU and at least display the
total number of users of that system.

Let me know what you think. Try logging in and out and see if the page
changes. It seems to be working pretty well.

Thanks.

B.



On Feb 9, 2008 6:57 PM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

>
>    I've simply removed the extra chat tabs from all pages. This gets
>    rid of the page specific chat rooms. We can simply add a link to
>    Special:Chat anywhere like the sidebar. This still allows people
>    to jump into arbitrary rooms with something like
>    http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Chat/random
>
>    I personally think an IRC backend with a web/php front end would
>    be the ideal combination.
>
> > I think this is a good idea.  In general the IRC model seems to work
> > great - one main chat room with the ability to have a private one-on-
> > one chat if you want.
> >
> > J
> >
> > Please Reply to julius at younglucks.com
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:30 PM, "Jason Kelly" <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> One thing that might improve the chat would be to just have the
> >> "lounge", and not have individual chat pages for different wiki pages.
> >> That way anyone who clicks the chat button ends up in the same place.
> >>
> >> If chat volume ever got so high it was confusing we could go back to
> >> the many chat room option, but just having one chat room would
> >> increase the likelihood of people bumping into each other.
> >>
> >> What do people think?  Would anyone care if the page-specific chat
> >> rooms disappeared?
>
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