[Mediawiki-l] new wiki -- Symbolproject.org

Thu Nov 20 09:13:57 UTC 2003

--- Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2003, at 19:23, Steve Cooney wrote:
> > But Im curious, for SP (or any other MW site) to
> use
> > MW, some specialized modules will have to be made,
> > some of which may not be useful to WP, but may be
> > useful for something else.
> >
> > Should imminently enthustastic and abundant SP
> > developers simply join MW, and get their works
> lost in
> > the shuffle, or can there be project forks in CVS
> > under the MW (still "Wikipedia" on sForge --they
> dont
> > do account transfers, eh?) that are modestly
> > independent and somewhat autonomous?
> 
> We could add additional branches in CVS, but they
> would likely be much 
> harder to maintain that way instead of just putting
> them right in the 
> main dev branch, where people will test them and
> they have half a 
> chance of getting maintained and going in the main
> stable distribution.
> 
> Useful general-purpose stuff like SVG support and
> annotations should 
> certainly go in the main code (and good features
> should also be easy to 
> disable where not needed!)
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Ok --but would it be better for MediaWiki if it had
some emphasis on its ability to branch out into
different, customized applications?   By this, I mean
that, just as some have pointed out, MediaWiki aspires
to be more than just Wikipedia, and as such, people
will want use-specific packages, perhaps including
cut-down lite wiki versions (but with the benefit of
some newer bells and whistles). I know the whole thing
is actually pretty tiny anyway, though. 

Just curious, because it seems to me that MediaWiki
wants to be more of an umbrella for other
non-Wikimedia wikis, and not just a one-trunk deal. 
The difference is perceptual, but may effect how
MediaWiki recieves attention from freelancers, who
just want to find free sockets and new directions they
can plug themselves into.

Sincerely,
Stephen Cooney

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