I am just hoping to prevent a repeat of ParserPP. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com<simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Soxred93 <soxre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Keep in mind that when MediaWiki is developed, the best interests of > > Wikimedia are in mind. Wikimedia takes priority on MW development. > > Not as a general rule. If we really didn't care about third-party > users, we'd require the very latest version of PHP (since Wikimedia > uses it), write large chunks of the software in other languages > (Wikipedia has Python installed), and so on. The suggestion to allow > embedded Lua in templates seems not to be happening primarily because > it would make Wikipedia content unusable by third parties on shared > hosting. > > Although development of MediaWiki tends to focus primarily on > Wikimedia's needs, it does *not* do so if that would significantly > hurt MediaWiki's utility to third parties. Part of Wikimedia's goals > is to make its content as useful as possible to third parties. That > applies to MediaWiki insofar as it's a Wikimedia project, and doubly > so insofar as it's needed to effectively use content from Wikimedia's > other projects like Wikipedia. > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: > > What does this have to do with not horribly breaking many extensions at > the > > same time? The WMF has cultivated an extension ecosystem and it makes > sense > > to protect it. > > Do you have evidence that many extensions are, in fact, horribly > broken? And if so, that they can't be easily fixed? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
