On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Tisza Gergő <[email protected]> wrote: > Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> 2) Some people really want to see the software succeed for >> non-financial reasons, so they're willing to put in extra effort to >> make it easier to use even if it doesn't directly benefit them. > ... >> (2) hasn't happened because most >> of us care mainly about Wikipedia or the wikis we administer, and >> aren't overly concerned with third parties who aren't savvy enough to >> use a command line. > > Which is too bad; it would be very useful for Wikimedia's mission if MediaWiki > was more widespread and more people would be more comfortable using it. It > would > be especially useful if it would be widespread in educational and academic > circles (though it already seems to be the wiki engine of choice there) as > those > are key target demographics for Wikipedia; the foundation could spend some > effort to analyze what are the greatest shortcomings of MediaWiki in that > area. > (One-click install and reorganizable widgets probably wouldn't get on that > list, > though.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
Seeing the recurring complaints about the installation/upgrade process, I think people must've missed my e-mail earlier in the thread. The installation and upgrade processes are being redone and is targeted for the 1.17 release. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
