Daniel Friesen wrote: > Done in true developer style "[RFC] MediaWiki Foundation": > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation
Thank you for this! This is exactly what I had in mind. It's interesting, with a lot of (proposed) non-profits, the biggest concerns are engaging volunteers and generating income. With this proposed foundation, I think most of the typical concerns aren't in play. Instead, as Nikerabbit so deftly commented on the RFC's talk page, the big question is: What projects would a MediaWiki Foundation work on and how would those projects be chosen? This seems to be _the_ crucial issue. Getting grants from the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikia or others doesn't seem like it'd be very difficult. Assuming there was broad support for the creation of such a foundation from active MediaWiki developers (and related stakeholders), getting the Wikimedia Foundation to release the trademark and domain also doesn't seem like it would be very difficult. But there's a huge unresolved question about how, out of the infinite number of project ideas, a MediaWiki Foundation would choose which ideas to financially support. > As you command oh great catalyst[1]. > [1] Hope you don't mind. I found it amusing. And it kind of fits in a > positive way. Cute. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
