It's great that Wikimedia Foundation have started to care more about 3rd parties! ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Full announcement on the blog: > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/26/future-third-party-releases-mediawiki/ > >> Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that we have >> contracted with two long-time members of the MediaWiki community–Mark >> Hershberger and Markus Glaser–to manage and drive forward third-party >> focused releases of MediaWiki. > >> Over a month ago, the Wikimedia Foundation sent out a request for >> proposals (RFP) to help us fill an important and underserved role in >> the development of MediaWiki. Two very solid proposals were produced, >> the community weighed in with questions and comments, and there was an >> open IRC office hour with the authors and interested community >> members. The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased with the outcome of this >> RFP and excited to begin this new chapter in the life of MediaWiki. > > Join me in congratulating Mark and Markus! > > Greg > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
