On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > As someone who originally started contributing from maintaining a > small MediaWiki instance, I kind of dislike this question. I also > don't think we should be mixing "we" when discussing WMF and > MediaWiki. > > But to answer your question: yes. We get contributions, we get > employees, and we get a larger, more vibrant community. A number of > contributors come from enterprises and small shops, but they often > don't contribute directly to Wikimedia projects. However, their > contributions often allow other people to use the software in > environments they couldn't be used in otherwise (LDAP authentication > is a perfect example of this). The people who then get to use the > software may turn into contributors that do benefit WMF. >
QFT. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
