[Foundation-l] "wiki (usability) summer" - like google summer of code?

Fri Dec 12 02:22:16 UTC 2008

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> When you consider that the WMF and its projects have not benefited from
> Betawiki and its functionality, then you prove again for how little
> internationalisation and localisation count within MediaWiki development.
> Consistently you will find Siebrand or Nikerabbit as top developers for
> creating MediaWiki patches. When you exclude Betawiki from what "we" are
> about.... really sad.

I certainly wouldn't exclude Nikerabbit and Betawiki from the list of
projects which benefit the Foundation, but I think he probably would have
done it anyway. I said that new developers are poorly integrated, he
wasn't a new developer.

I do count David McCabe's project LiquidThreads among those that have not
been useful for Wikimedia.

-- Tim Starling