I’ve previously written about how I used interwiki links in Wikipedia to extract dictionary information (here and here). After talking with a friend, I got another idea for how I could extract even more dictionary information – localization files. You might know that open source projects like KDE are available in many different languages, translated [...]
I was kindly invited by Professor Chang to give a presentation to the department of education at Minzu University of China (formerly called Central University of Nationalities). I never like to give the same talk twice, so although I reused some of the materials from my talk at South China Normal, I redesigned the talk [...]
Background I somehow came across the homepage of Sarai about two years ago, while living in Indonesia. I was extremely impressed with what I saw from their webpages and mailing lists – a vibrant community space/collective that was interested in many of the same things as me; urban issues in developing countries, open source, open [...]
While working for CARE Indonesia we were trying to implement a web-based intranet file repository, that the different sub offices could use to store their documents, to increase both archival (backup, etc) but also cross-project and organizational learning. I found the project Boxroom, a Ruby on Rails project that seemed to do pretty much what [...]
With this, I am officially releasing the Wikipedia Offline Server 0.21 into the world (thanks Liam and Espen B-P for helping to test 0.1 and 0.2). UPDATE: I’ve made a static page about the Wikipedia Offline Server, and released version 0.22. Go to the new page. UPDATE: The new, significantly changed project, now lives on [...]
It´s already been noted by for exampel Google and Flickr that opening up your api (the interface to your website) and allowing other programmes / webpages to interact with your data can be hugely positive in creating a community, that can come up with ideas that you never dreamt of. See for example the Flickr [...]
This last week I have been working unusually hard. After fighting for a while with EZPublish, which is what Politics of Health is published with, I have decided to try to migrate the whole system to a wiki. The article structure is very simple, we hardly use any of the CMS features of EZPublish, and [...]
