Presentation given at Wikimania 2009 Buenos Aires about the MediaWiki/Wave interface

1. MediaWiki Wave The best of both worlds..

6. Wiki

7. Chat

9. WYSIWYG

11. It allows for collaborative content creation

12. it provides scalable low cost hosting

13. HOWEVER

15. The syntax of templates is horrible

16. The wikitext takes time to master

19. Synchronise what are effectively two Waves

21. Google workshop in California

22. Demo WMF Office, New York and Wikimania

23. Keep up with changes to API's

24. Test with 100 real time users

25. Provide Wave sandbox access to MediaWiki developers

27. It is not only about e-mail

29. Tables are not yet supported

31. Functionality is more important then performance

33. For the Wikimedia Foundation this is a lab project

35. Blog: mediawikiwave.blogspot.com

36. Twitter: MediawikiWave

37. Forum: MediawikiWave

38. Made possible by:

39. Google.com

40. The support of the Google Wave team

41. The interest of the MediaWiki team