On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you are a content organizer that modifies templates and likes > > to make structures easier for for readers and editors, SMW actually makes > > it much easier to do things that are otherwise impossible in MediaWiki > > without inflexible bots. > > > > Yes, and that sounds like an advantage for people like Quim, whose job is > to create structures for other people to use. What I'm saying, as someone > who is living with our current totally imperfect system of documenting > software and projects on a day-to-day basis, is that I don't see what the > advantages are, and that a redesign and a migration needs to take in to > account everyone's needs more, not just roles like Quim's and the new > contributors he is admirably working to attract. The best way to approach a > project like this is not to propose an up-front migration of an entire wiki > to a new piece of software, just to prototype a few new features. > > The proposal is to move non-MediaWiki documentation our of mediawiki.orginto a more generically named wiki. The proposal isn't for migrating all of mediawiki.org. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
