Sorry, forgot to add a link to the lists - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion/Contacted_by_Mitevam .
Mariya On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Mariya Nedelcheva Miteva < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As I have been talking to third-party MW users quite a lot recently, I > notice that one of the major issues they are facing is the lack of > visibility on MW.org. I have seen some previous work like that has been > reverted because WMF does not want to endorse any external parties on > mw.org. > However, at the same time I see some pages featuring such users such as > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials and > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_with_BitNami. So my question here > is how much is acceptable? > > I think it would be helpful for both the third-party community and for MW > itself to give third-party users more visibility. It will help third-party > users know about each other and support each other, get more involved with > the community and possibly attract more business. At the same time having > some success stories visible is likely to attract more MediaWiki users, > while a thriving and engaged third-party community is likely to bring more > innovation to the software itself. > > I have been working on some lists of wiki farms, consultants, developers, > hosting companies and interesting installations for my internship, which > you can see here. However, I am wondering if I could give the lists a > little more visibility with a disclaimer on top that WMF does not in any > way endorse the listed companies and guarantee for the quality of their > service. Also, I think updating and revitalizing the > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials page is a good idea. > Another way to give some users visibility is having featured projects of > the month or something like that, which would require someone's consistent > involvement, however. > > How much do you think is acceptable? > > Mariya > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
