On 14/09/11 07:33, Tim Starling wrote:
snip
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/10844
Just think how different the world might have been ;)
Well done Tim ! :-b
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On 9/13/11 10:33 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/10844
Just think how different the world might have been ;)
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Well played sir.
:-D
Just think how different the world might have been ;)
Pity there was no Mongo at that time.
Domas
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Hi,
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
A cool software history project, Architecture of Open Source
Applications, asked MediaWiki for a short history of our software.
So we're collecting your historical knowledge, stories and opinions on
On 13 September 2011 13:41, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I want to stress how important it is for the MediaWiki community to be
actively involved in this.
I want Magnus to tell the story of just why it's in PHP. Possibly in
section 2 of that page ;-)
- d.
On 13/09/11 14:56, David Gerard wrote:
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I want Magnus to tell the story of just why it's in PHP. Possibly in
section 2 of that page ;-)
Because wikipedia used UseMode wiki written in Perl which IMO is worse
than PHP.
Python, ruby etc were not that popular at that time and PHP was becoming
This isn't MediaWiki history, but...
On 9/13/11 10:32 AM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Historical notes:
- python2 was released in 2001 IIRC.
2000 actually. And if you were in the Python community you probably had
been using 2.0-ish features via the __future__ interface.
- ruby was only
On 11-09-13 12:18 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
This isn't MediaWiki history, but...
On 9/13/11 10:32 AM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Historical notes:
- python2 was released in 2001 IIRC.
2000 actually. And if you were in the Python community you probably had
been using 2.0-ish features via
On 13/09/11 21:18, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
yet, it would be great to have his own explanation :b
As much as we all love to hate PHP, it was (and is) a good choice.
Nowadays I will go for Javascript but still believe PHP is the best
overall choice for MediaWiki :-D
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On 13/09/11 02:57, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
A cool software history project, Architecture of Open Source
Applications, asked MediaWiki for a short history of our software.
So we're collecting your historical knowledge, stories and opinions on
MediaWiki's architecture. Go to
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Sumanah, you probably want to conduct an interview with Magnus and
lcrawte
You probably meant lcrocker, right? Lcawte was a bit young at the time :)
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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Guillaume Paumier wrote:
When the book's editor contacted us, he had in mind a traditional
setup, where one or two subject matter experts would write the whole
thing.
For reference: http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html.
I believe the final document will be extremely useful for new
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
On 13/09/11 14:56, David Gerard wrote:
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I want Magnus to tell the story of just why it's in PHP. Possibly in
section 2 of that page ;-)
Because wikipedia used UseMode wiki written in Perl which IMO is worse
Hi!
A cool software history project, Architecture of Open Source
Applications, asked MediaWiki for a short history of our software.
If you're soliciting feedback, you should note that putting this into an
initial version of initial ideas list is somewhat odd way to attract
contributions:
On 14/09/11 11:39, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!
A cool software history project, Architecture of Open Source
Applications, asked MediaWiki for a short history of our
software.
If you're soliciting feedback, you should note that putting this
into an initial version of initial ideas list is
On 13/09/11 23:12, Roan Kattouw wrote:
You probably meant lcrocker, right? Lcawte was a bit young at the time :)
lcrocker of course :-) Thanks Roan.
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