On 8 June 2012 02:32, 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.


It's quite definitely on-mission: it makes this form of
knowledge-spreading normal and expected.

(Of course, just consider the perennial cries for WMF support from
non-Wikipedia products ...)


> 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?


A "help MediaWiki, donate to WMF" link next to the download button
strikes me as entirely appropriate. I assume our fundraising includes
some way to tell what links are on the path to a given successful
donation.


- d.

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