On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:20:49AM +0100, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
it's probably philosophically good for us to
get in the habit of thinking "unless this feature is free or really
really useful, we should do without it". That is, we already have a
bad case of feature-itis, and taking a hardline on such things might
be very helpful.
Very much agree!
No more new features until jan 2004 (or so). Then allow 4 new ones or so.
Mathematics is difficult enough. Don't create more headache.
Programming / developing software IS mathematics in the end.
Let's agree on things like: no more than doubling the amount of sourcecode
within 5 years (or so).
Wikipedia-content can be self-organising very well, Wiki is great!,
but metaWiki should become more 'pre'-structured. Designing democratic
structures, institutions, etc. is also quite 'technical', this seems
the place (I have no account yet on wikipedia-l, but I'll soon get one.)
Sorry for bothering,
Pieter Suurmond
No, it's all completely wrong.
We need lot of new features, like:
Support for SVG, conversion to good printable formats (PS and PDF),
exporting Wikipedia to text-only dict format, better mirroring (that would
just transfer daily diffs or so), speech synthesis support, including
generating pronunciation of words in actual sound files, support for
rendering non-Latin scripts into PNGs (most browsers don't have CJK,
Arabic etc., and it would be nice if they could see it anyway),
multilingual accounts, recent changes and all that stuff, moving
all Wikipedias to UTF-8 with some support for broken browsers,
spelling checker, support for external WYSIWYG editor (mode for
Emacs or something), <code> tag that would allow to download examples
(as separate filer or as gziped tarball generated on fly), support
for XHTML and MathML, and a lot more.
And programming is not math at all.