On 22 August 2012 20:18, Thomas Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In addition, a lot of people think we should be paying someone to do >> >> some mediawiki development. Writing extensions that we think are >> >> important and that the WMF isn't supporting, for instance. You could >> easily fill a day a week with that. > > > This is a silly idea, as I said before, and we should forget about this for > a moment. Focus on our own tech needs. This point does seem to be a crux for the whole business. (Well, it was around in January 2011 when I was taking minutes of the discussion, and apparently hasn't gone away.) When Bob Dylan sang the line "Your debutante just knows what you need but I know what you want", he had apparently foreseen this very issue. Does anyone have the debutante's phone number? Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
