Hi Mariya, Just to clarify one thing: the "wontfix" that was applied on the use of Semantic MediaWiki for WMF wikis really only covers the main, general-interest wikis: Wikipedia, Wikiquote, etc. SMW is in fact already in use on one WMF wiki, Wikimedia Labs. As far as I know, there has been no real discussion of using the software on mediawiki.org specifically.
-Yaron On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Maria Miteva <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I want to bring up the main issues we have identified with third-party > users so far to the MW community and the first one is extensions > management. I heard from many of you that you would like to see > improvement in extensions management on mw.org. > > Here is a summary of what I've heard so far on email and > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion: > > The most important thing is to be able to immediately see the > compatibility of a given extension with MW versions. If compatibility > testing can be automated, that would be best. Additionally, people want > to have some rating of extensions based on the quality of code, > vulnerability, usefulness,etc. Statistics like number of downloads can be > used as a market of quality as well. More visibility should be given to > good extensions. Extensions can be separated in categories based on what > they do so they can be found easily. Some suggest the use of SMW on MW.org > to organize extensions even though the use of SMW on WMF websites has been > discussed and decided as a wontfix ( > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8390#c24) . Also, Yury > Katkov suggested Article > Feedback<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_Feedback> can > be used for rating or WikiVote could provide some of their voting systems. > > Before I bring the issue up to the community, I would love to hear > everybody's feedback. Here are some questions to consider : > > > 1. Is extensions management a significant issue for you? Would you > like to see efforts focused on it? > 2. What should extensions be rated on? > 3. Who should be rating extensions? > 4. How could it be implemented reusing existing resources maximally? > 5. What else would be useful to have in extensions management? > 6. Are there any good examples on how it's done on other platforms you > would like to point out? > 7. Let me know if you would be willing to/available to help with > specification, implementation, testing, or anything else. > > Also, add any other comments/information. I want to have as much details > as possible on what people would like to see happen. > > I will be sending similar emails about other "popular" issues soon. > > Mariya > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise > > -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com
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