Another day, another unbelievable Wikidot application. Today, the Chatroom, a neat instant messaging application built entirely from Wikidot pages, magic, and five drops of Dave's Insanity Sauce. The creator of this work of art is James Kanjo, a black belt Wikidot expert who can smash a stack of bricks in half using only his bare hands, ListPages, and a few lines of JavaScript.
Presumably the Chatroom will join the growing family of reusable building blocks that we use to make social web applications. If you want to try it, head over to the active chatroom and say "hi"!
Anyone that hops on over for a look, definitely post a "hello" and stay for a chat if you have time.
This chatroom is even better than any other instant messaging client available.
Heck, I'm actually thinking about building a private site with this and recommending that it replace a private Skype chat I regularly visit.
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How do I get to the wikidot chat room ?
I see, you have found it… ;)
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Is it possible to insert this in already existing site? Do I need to open new site for this?
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The home page for the chatroom has a list of all of the pages you need to copy/recreate on your own site:
http://chatroom.wikidot.com/
I'm sure there's some other site manager duties to take care of like setting autonumbering and maybe some permissions. Sorry I can't be more specific - I haven't tried to plug this into any of my sites yet.
-Ed
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Yes, that page also describes how to use autonumbering.
I had an attempt to put it onto my site last night and it caused a lot of problems — not just "not working" — but actually preventing me from accessing certain pages.
Until I can figure out what is going wrong with my site, I don't recommend anyone else try it on an existing website. Use a new one first to try the transfer.
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Can it be set so that anonymous can enter their names into the title so that they have names?
Also, what can be done to censor the chat?
Only if you want everyone to enter their names into the title.
IF there is a way to censor the chat messages (and that's a big IF), it'd be through javascript.
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Is this available for use on other wikis yet? When I went to http://chatroom.wikidot.com/ and looked at the pages listed i couldn't really see the coding to replicate on some of the pages. This might just be a user error on my part since I am not the most adept at wiki coding and such as of yet. I love the idea of it and would like to try and integrate it with my sites.
Great job on this application!
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No, it is not yet available for other sites, at least not easily judging by some tests over the last couple of days. Hopefully James will do the documentation for this shortly. The application has only been live during this week and his focus has been on getting the application running properly (and a damn fine job he has made of it) rather than embedding it in other sites. But I guess it won't be too long.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
I've managed to embed it in mine here, but there were a couple of issues to sort out before it was working, so this definitely needs some documentation ;)
I could help you to set it up on your own site if you wish, or — what I'd recommend anyway — wait a while, as James is still making regular updates, and grab your own copy once it's properly finished.
If we had Cross-Site Includes, updates could be automatically sent to everyone ;)
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Can you share the source you used for chat:_template? That's the only page whose source I'm missing. I suppose I could be patient and just wait for James.
I'm close to getting it working, but need to track down a couple issues too and getting the template source should help (I hope).
Aren't you supposed to be studying? I know it's only about 2 days since your big announcement, but you're still awfully busy around here! ;)
-Ed
Community Admin
It's all the emails, they're telling me to post and they won't stop :(
I think we need a holiday mode for notifications XD
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Thats great news! Thanks I totally appreciate all the work everyone does on these applications.. totally over my head. :) Couldn't make my site look good with out yall :P
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Ed,
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
Thanks!
How do I fix the redirect that sends that page to http://%%site_name%%.wdfiles.com/local--code/chat:_javascript/3
The %%site_name%% variable isn't getting converted for some reason. Do I need to hard code my site name in its place?
Nevermind, I get it now. The redirect was messing with my brain. It's behaving the way it should on the _template page (by showing the variable).
-Ed
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James, could I suggest a very slight modification to the color scheme you have used for the chat boxes. The black on dark gray background is something I find slightly difficult to read, particularly late at night after a day staring at a screen. The scheme could be lightened and brightened slightly by changing the CSS to the following:
This will create a nice separation between the username and the message and (depending on your screen of course) will look a bit brighter. It also softens the rather harsh 3px black border to a more subtle grey. The result would look like this:
Of course, these are only my suggestions, others may well have better alternatives to suggest.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Rob, nice. Still a little too much space wasted between comments, IMO but the lighter look is definitely better.
I have a couple of change suggestions too, maybe the projects forum needs a category specifically for the chat application, given how important it's become in just a short while.
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Thanks. Reducing the wasted space is very straightforward and James would just need to change the margin in .chat-message to margin: 0.2em;
Yes a category in the projects forum for this would be good; I was torn whether to post here, in the community forum, in the chatroom, in my local newspaper…
Rob
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What about removing the grey box completely, so the post will be one under another without much space between?
Like in other chatrooms? Names of users can be in a color different from the color of the post text…
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Something like this for example?
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Yes, lovely. No distractions, just the text.
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Yes, the great thing about the chatroom is that you only need to change these things via the css page — It couldn't be any easier to manage :D
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I have information on it, I want to just get rid of the files so I'm not screwed over…