Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > On 08/27/2012 12:04 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: >> We need some sort of think tank (well some thing with a better name) >> non-profit that people donate to. To have it hire people to crank out >> MediaWiki features outside of just the stuff WMF wants. >> >> I'd love to spend 80% of my time cranking out fringe MediaWiki features >> where what the community wants and what my specialties are intersect. >> > > To borrow from the great Amir: +[[Crore]]
Yes, what the world needs is another horribly confusingly named foundation. After we establish the MediaWiki Foundation, we can start work on the MikiWedia Foundation and the WediaMiki Foundation. ;-) In all seriousness, this has come up a few times before (on wikitech-l and mediawiki-l, I believe) and it deserves thoughtful consideration. I think the first step is to write a draft somewhere on MediaWiki.org detailing: * what you view as the current deficiencies of the Wikimedia Foundation owning/operating MediaWiki; and * what possible problems might be solved (or created!) by the establishment of a MediaWiki Foundation. A discussion of some analogous organizations (such as Mozilla) might be good as case studies to include in such a page as well. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
