On 29 December 2010 11:21, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > David Gerard wrote:
>> MediaWiki is precisely that software. And there's any number of >> specialist wikis using it that are basically Wikipedia in a specialist >> area. > No, I don't think MediaWiki is precisely that software. MediaWiki is a wiki > engine that can be used for a variety of purposes. It may have started out > as a tool to make an encyclopedia, but very shortly after its mission > drifted. > MediaWiki was designed to fit a number of ideas: free dictionary, free > encyclopedia, free news site, free media repo, etc. And thus its design has > been held back in many areas in order to ensure that any change doesn't > break its various use-cases. No, it's pretty much a simple free-encyclopedia engine. Ask people on the other projects about how hard it is to get anyone interested in what they need. >> This sounds like "software that looks to me on the surface like it was >> actually built for making an encyclopedia". This is, of course, not at >> all the same as success. > I'm not sure what "this" is. Can you clarify? Your original statement of what you thought was needed. I'm not convinced that putting more policy into the engine will make a Wikipedia killer. There's already rather a lot of encyclopedia-directed policy in the WMF deploy. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
