Hi there Happy-melon (great handle, btw). Its not quite that straightforward. We have met with Wikia folks and they've acknowledged that it will be a fair bit of work to adapt it to our uses. Wikia has offered us engineering resources to assist this effort. As I say, we are planning to investigate further in the coming months and of course we'll disclose our findings.
Danese On 6/1/10 4:37 PM, Happy-melon wrote: > "Danese Cooper"<[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > >> Just noting that we at WMF have been talking to Wikia about taking a >> look at their code to see if it can be made useful for WMF properties. >> Expect to hear more about Rich Text Editing soonish. >> >> Danese >> > What are we expecting to hear from them? The code is open source and > available in a SVN repo; the only challenge is working out exactly how it > differs from MW trunk and why. I can see how some information (like which > revision it was branched from) could be more easily obtained from asking > rather than playing with svn merge, but are they likely to commit real > man-hours into making these features trunk-friendly? > > --HM > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
