On 11/13/2013 08:18 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Matthew replied on-wiki, but I'll add that there's a dream within the > MediaWiki tech community to be able to simply do "apt-get mediawiki" or > similar on a spun-up virtual machine and everything will quickly and > easily be set up for you. > > There's a contrasting view that MediaWiki should only serve as the > platform for Wikimedia wikis (large, high-volume sites) and that it's > overkill for any small wiki setup. This view also usually advocates not > focusing on third-party support, naturally, which removes Jimmy the casual > MediaWiki user from the equation.
Ha! Having good packaging so that you can just do "apt-get mediawiki" would actually eliminate some of this dichotomy. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
