8 Июнь 2012 г. 5:33:06 пользователь Tim Starling ([email protected]) написал:
On 07/06/12 03:36, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > The Foundation has made MediaWiki available for everyone and that's a > great thing. But Wikimedia's funding comes from donations as a result > of requests on Wikipedia, not from distribution of MediaWiki, so they > are rightly focused on their production cluster. I've long believed that MediaWiki should be considered a project of the WMF, on the same level as the wikis we host. Perhaps if we included donation requests on the download and installer pages then MediaWiki might be considered worthy of some attention in its own right? -- Tim Starling
MediaWiki is quite worth itself for many different projects. Additional funding could be received by expanding the commercial support of another MediaWiki-based projects. Also by making MediaWiki more CMS-like (despite the countless warnings that MW is not CMS, it becomes more and more CMS-like with every version, especially when bundled with extensions). With Router, Actions, also with non-wikitext page views in development (WikiData), semantic, ACL extensions and so on. Perhaps MediaWiki could become something like Confluence but in PHP. I don't know. Speaking of tarballs, I was quite surprised that non-recommended to use, non-tarball 1.18-wmf1 has 'mediawiki.jqueryMsg.js' ResourceLoader module, while newer and recommended 1.18.2 / 1.18.3 tarball has not. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
