I hope I am emailing this to the right group. My concern was about mediawiki
and it's limitations, as well as it's outdated methods. As someone wo runs a
wiki, I've gone through a lot of frustrations.
If Wordpress is like Windows 7, then Mediawiki is Windows 2000. Very outdated
GUI, outdated ways of doing things,for example using ftp to edit the settings
of the wiki instead of having a direct interface like Wordpress. Mediawiki
makes millions more than Wordpress does too, why can't the money be put into
making a modern product instead of in pockets of the people who run it? I know
Wordpress and Mediawiki serve two different purposes, but that's not the point.
The point is, one is modern and user friendly (Wordpress), and the other
(Mediawiki) is not. Other complaints:
-Default skins are boring
-Very limited in being able to make the wiki look nice like you could with a
normal webpage.
-A major pain to update! Wordpress upgrades are so simple.
-Better customization so people can get a wiki the way they want. It should be
more like the wikis on wikia, except without me having to learn css and php to
make those types of customizations. Give me some option, some places to put
widgets. Not every wiki is going to be as formal as the ones on wikimedia
sites. And don't the people at Wikimedia commons get tired of always having to
make changes so it actually suits their site? If they had some of the options
from the get go, i'm sure they'd appreciate it too.
-I don't want to go to my ftp to download my local settings file, add a few
lines then reupload it. This is caveman-like behavior for the modern internet.
-Being able to manage extensions like wordpress does.
In short, it's time to spend some money from those millions of dollars from
donations to make this software more modern. Being stubborn in modernizing it
will only make this software less relevant in the future if other wiki software
companies are willing to do things the people at Wikimedia aren't.
Thank you
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