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

[Dan Bolser]

Looks good :D

Still no one chatting? ;-)


Cheers,
Dan.

On 10/02/2008, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > --
> > Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
> >
> >
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