I don't think people are arguing to keep it lightweight like Tiddly or UseMod but rather on a similar platform on what we already have and to keep the core in a position where it can have features that would be widely used by most installations and the "cruft" that is more rarely used to be housed as extensions.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > There are lots of lightweight wiki engines to choose from. MediaWiki > was never going to be among them, it had enough features in version > 1.0 to put it in the heavyweight class. > > Many design decisions made since then (for instance, the introduction > of the resource loader) have favoured features over support for small > installations. > > I think we can turn MediaWiki into a fully featured wiki engine which > can compete with the likes of Confluence. I don't think it can ever > compete with TiddlyWiki or UseModWiki in their respective niches. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
