Last I checked I'm making recommendations in an early stage of discussion on an open mailing list, not making decisions for everybody by myself.
-- brion On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/01/2013 09:25 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > We've been moving away from being friendly to old-style shared-hosting > > servers for some time with key features that people are going to expect > to > > replicate on their MediaWikis in the future... > > Fair enough. > > If WMF were the only user of MW, you could freely decide to take MW it > whatever direction you choose. But doing that now without considering > the needs of other MW users isn't responsible. > > Not everyone needs to run Wikipedia and it is a worthwhile effort to > make sure MediaWiki remains scalable down to the shared-hosting level. > > On 10/01/2013 09:56 AM, Chad wrote: > > I'd like to echo everything Brion said here. I think we were just > > talking about this last week or the week before, right? > > You and Brion talked about this? I don't recall any conversation on > wikitech-l about abandoning support for the "little guy". > > Before a decision like this is made (and I would like people like David > Gerard of RationalWiki to continue to weigh in, not just WMF employees), > I would like to get some actual statistics on the number of shared > hosting users. How are they running their sites? Do larger wikis have > the time and the budget to support this sort of move? > > Perhaps WMF should just fork off their own "enterprise" branch of MW? > > It would be good to discuss this on mediawiki-l, too. > > -- > Mark A. Hershberger > NicheWork LLC > 717-271-1084 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
