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

[julius.lucks]

Hey Bill,

This is really cool.  The formatting of the page needs a little bit  
of work I think, but certainly something very useful to have.

It is amazing how few people are logged in on a sunday!

Julius

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On Feb 10, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bill F 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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