On 2013-10-01 11:43 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > I know this is not your question - but officially supported by whom? I > would consider this massively out of scope for the wmf unless it was using > revenue from this service to subsidize wikipedia. Even then it seems > somewhat questionable, politically. > > Ignoring the politics of such a move, I think it would be cool. > > -bawolff There's always the generic idea of MediaWiki Foundation[1] we've been discussing or the MediaWiki Development Chapter[2] focused iteration on that idea I never completed the page for.
The scope could easily be expanded to also support hosting. And it would be a beautiful place to do it in. Besides just donations, make some profit from hosting MediaWiki installations, and then use that profit to pay more former volunteers to squash bugs and make random features and improvements to MediaWiki full-time. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dantman/MediaWiki_Development_Chapter ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
