Gary Kirk

Recently a number of applications were introduced or upgraded across Xinki. A new development wiki, Xinki Lab, was set up, and the experimental Ajax functionality enabled on it for testing purposes. A site status page was written, unfortunately it is currently stale and does not yet auto-update.

MediaWiki was upgraded. WordPress (including this blog) was upgraded - twice in 36 hours. Old junk was deleted. Remember, I am always looking for people to help maintain Xinki so everyone can benefit.

Various news this first week. First, Google is going to buy YouTube. What this means for Google and YouTube is yet to be seen, but it is known the site will keep its own branding and 67 members of staff at the headquearters they recently moved into. So, like Writely is at the moment - no great “Google Write” re-branding or anything. - Update: Late last night Google merged Writely with Google Spreadsheets and relaunched as Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Maybe people will be able to log in to YouTube with their Google Account, in time, pre-empting some sort of merge with Google Video. On a side note, I first blogged about Google Video back in March 2005!

The other thing is my Request for Adminship on the English Wikipedia, which ends this Friday.