An'n 04.09.2010 02:43, hett Andrew Garrett schreven: > Perhaps your time would be better-spent arguing for the importance of > projects that you feel are neglected, rather than picking holes in > projects that you think might be unnecessary. I didn't deem any project unnecessary and I didn't pick any holes. All the projects are useful. But if I say "I'd like more focus on project X" and the answer is "our resources are limited and we want to work on projects Y and Z first" than my options are to either provide more resources (which I can't) or to argue that X is more important than Z.
I have tried to argue for the projects that I feel are important on several occasions, but the answer was "yeah, nice idea, do it yourself". Putting feature requests on Bugzilla is ineffective too (<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164> exists since 2004 and still people invest thousands of working hours removing diacritics in category sorting keys). And that's why I made suggestions to focus more on development of features. I have a whole list of features that we lack. Another one is better multilingual support. Commons is multilingual, but the software doesn't support multilingualism on content pages well. Commons created a whole bunch of rather esoteric templates to work around the limitations of MediaWiki. Template:ISOdate is used to render dates in a localized format. It's used on 6.5 million pages and it's logic is rather complex. I guess it would be a big performance gain for Commons if MediaWiki would natively support the functionality of ISOdate. Marcus Buck User:Slomox _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
