| dbarratt added a comment. |
In T213318#4955539, @Smalyshev wrote:I am of course speaking out of my personal experience with (some) people running small wikis (including myself many years ago). It may be we're not targeting them or caring for their needs currently. But I'd like to raise this question so if we forgo support for this category, we do it with open eyes and not by accident.
It seems like there are a lot of Product questions related to MediaWiki that I don't have an answer to (and maybe someone here does?). Like, who are our target demographics? Why are these targets important to us? What does their adoption of MediaWiki gain us?
I do mostly look at software as art so I completely understand the perspective that: "This is art, and everyone should be able to use it!" and in some ways, I completely agree with that.
On the other hand (at least for those employed by the Foundation), this is real money that is being used by our "customers" (our donors), so I think it's important to know what our Product strategy is (I assume we have one, but I'm not aware of it). Without that, I don't know how we can make informed decisions about the platforms we should or should not support.
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