On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
I really don't like this idea. Maybe it's just me--but I *hate* when software includes a donation screen. Donation buttons/banners/flashing red lights on the site are fine and dandy, but those kinds of "Please donate" pages in software just scream "GIVE US MONEY" at me. Especially ones that continue to pop up on each upgrade. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
