Jonathan Morgan, 27/07/2015 23:05:
I was also a bit surprised to hear that process held up as a positive
example. But it was before my time as well, so I don't have direct
knowledge, just what Liam related to me.
Vector was probably the first case where MediaWiki turned into a real
battlefield, with WMF on one side and volunteers (i.e. all the
traditional MediaWiki users and developers) on the other.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/49535/
Of course there are still lessons to learn from the process and Trevor's
email proves some were learnt. :) I'm not sure what exactly would the
the things to copy or drop, but as someone involved in communication of
the initiative in 2009–10, I can say that:
* explaining the project was much easier than it is with most WMF
software projects now;
* WMF got much better at releasing data and analysis (when they exist)!
Nemo
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