On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] > wrote:
> Wave might replace parts of MediaWiki but it would not replace Wikipedia... > To appreciate this, you have to realise what it is the WMF stands for.. It stands for the Wikimedia Foundation. It is content first and foremost. No, it's a board of directors, and a staff, and a bunch of servers - none of which are really required and all of which can and should be replaced. If you want to say that whatever it is that replaces Wikipedia *is* Wikipedia, fine, though you might have some trademark issues until the WMF actually dissolves. > MediaWiki is our current software. It is > great software and it has great functionality. When the Wave software is > able to replace aspects of MediaWiki, you will find that it is possible to > integrate it into MediaWiki. But MediaWiki is not a distributed platform. That's the problem. It's too centralized, both technically and politically. If there is a problem, it is with MediaWiki. Given its license it cannot > contribute back to Wave.. Wave functionality can be incorporated in > MediaWiki because it does not have a viral license. Huh? Wave does not have a license. Parts of it will be proprietary, parts will be GPL, parts will be BSD, parts will be public domain. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
