On 8 June 2011 16:22, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Part of my motivation is that many people seem to install MediaWiki and
> expect a wiki that acts very similar to Wikipedia, with which they are
> more familiar.  Now, part of the problem is documentation — these people
> don't understand how the functionality of MediaWiki is partitioned.  But
> in addition to documentation, we can start providing the most expected
> functionality in the tarball.


Speaking as a tarball user: Yes please!


> Immediately, the objection of “bloat” would be raised.  To alleviate
> this concern, we can still provide a “MediaWiki-lite” tarball with only
> the contents of phase3 as before.


Works for me.


> So my list would be:
>    Cite
>    ParserFunctions
>    Gadgets
>    WikiEditor


I would also ask for CategoryTree, though my users (office workers, a
mix of geeks and non-geeks) could live without it.

Suggestion: ask on mediawiki-l and mwusers.com, where tarball users
might be found.


- d.

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