On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Not while they need to exist*. At the least, we need to document when > a distro does something weirdarse. > I started filling in the list in terms of the directory structure. Hopefully one of the package maintainers will look at it (with Cunningham's Law applying as necessary). > (I see the MediaWiki page on the Debian wiki is proposed for deletion ...) As it has been for four years. :-) On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote: > 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? > > If MediaWiki is currently underserved and would only receive attention from the WMF by virtue of its revenue generation (rather than its contribution to the WMF's mission), maybe it needs a separate (subsidiary?) organization to address the needs of third-party users. Third-party users could donate money (or buy support, as with Canonical vis-à-vis Ubuntu) with the knowledge that it will be spent on the things they need done. Anyway, musings aside, soliciting donations through the software could be a neat experiment. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
