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

[Bill F]

Maybe an interesting graphic will help. Like using that cool box for
counting cell cultures that Ty and Felix resurrected. We can have a webcam
focussed on it. We can use the actual counter on it to display the total
people on the site. I'm nothing if I'm not retro at heart.

A culture plate with a little electrode to increment a mechanical counter. I
think we really need to come up with a great way to showcase what must be
the most interesting piece of equipment in Endy Lab. Now that those water
filled slime thingees are broken...



On Feb 10, 2008 2:35 PM, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:

> I'd actually be surprised if there are ever a lot of people logged in
> to edit at the same time.  I'm not sure exactly what the typical usage
> pattern looks like for OWW members, but I'm guessing many people go to
> the site to check a couple things, make a quick edit or two, and then
> leave. Better publication of who is logged in currently might actually
> give folks more reason to hang around though.  cool feature for sure,
> will be neat to watch it.
>
> thanks,
> jason
>
> On Feb 10, 2008 2:13 PM, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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