Alex Monk wrote: >On 11 February 2015 at 09:33, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, the question is however, if this passed "consensus" on english >> wikipedia and I made a patch for mediawiki, assuming code would be >> correct would it be merged to core of mediawiki or is there any other >> requirement? Does it actually even need to pass consensus on >> wikipedia? I think this would be useful for other wikis as well. We >> already have bot flag and most of smaller wikis have no bots. > >No, absolutely not. MediaWiki is entirely independent.
MediaWiki serves as the platform of Wikipedia. And changes to MediaWiki must keep compatibility with Wikipedia, for now and indefinitely. So I wouldn't say MediaWiki is entirely independent. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
