I assume the CC to me on the message below was a courtesy. However, I would like to comment on one point in Neil's message. I was not thinking about an application rewrite that allows projects "to jettison all existing wiki data." That would make no sense for us. We would need a way to convert the wiki data from the old format (i.e., mediawiki markup) to the new.
Dan Nessett ________________________________ From: Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Cc: Dan Nessett <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0 On 12/6/11 1:55 PM, Dan Nessett wrote: > This is a (admittedly long and elaborate) question, not a proposal. I ask > it in order to learn whether anyone has given it or something like it > some thought. > > Has anyone thought of creating MW 2.0? I mean by this, completely > rewriting the application in a way that may make it incompatible with MW > 1.x.y. In that case why not use some other wiki software? There are quite a few. See <//http://www.wikimatrix.org/>. If you're willing to jettison all existing wiki data I'm not sure I would recommend MediaWiki for a fresh start. I would in many cases, but not all. In any case, the WMF already have people working on a new parser, and a new GUI editor. If both of those projects reach fruition I would call that 2.0-worthy right there. Also, the new parser should provide us with some means to transition to a different wiki syntax if we think it's a good idea. If we wanted to *really* get radical, then we'd think about changing the storage model too, but you might as well rename it by that point. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
