On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:26 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 December 2010 08:24, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > >> To me (and >> others), that leaves the question of what would happen if you wrote some >> software that was actually built for making an encyclopedia, rather than the >> jack of all trades product that MediaWiki is. > > > MediaWiki is precisely that software.
However - see also the other threads on other lists recently, about MW core failings. MW was designed to build an encyclopedia with Web 1.5 technology. It was a major step forwards compared to its contemporaries, but sites like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter are massive user experience advances over where we are and can credibly go with MediaWiki. So, to modify David's comment - MediaWiki *was* precisely that software. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
