[Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

Sun Mar 20 17:10:40 UTC 2011

Oops. Wanted to comment that commits are essentially project edits - so
treat them as such.

Sent from my mobile device.
On Mar 20, 2011 1:08 PM, "Stephanie Daugherty" <sdaugherty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sent from my mobile device.
> On Mar 20, 2011 1:07 PM, "Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> Sorry if I was unclear, I meant that the development community is
>>> somewhat separate: people making modifications for non-Wikimedia
>>> installs, non-Wikimedia extension devs, Wikia devs, etc. Not that I
>>> know how many of them there are.
>>
>> I don't see how that makes them any more separate from other projects
>> than, say, Wikibooks is separate from Wikipedia. Yes, there are
>> probably participants who aren't interested in any other Wikimedia
>> project, but that's true for all of Wikimedia's projects (well, maybe
>> not Commons). MediaWiki itself is a Wikimedia project, at least
>> according to this official-looking list:
>>
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects
>>
>> So contributions to MediaWiki are contributions to a Wikimedia
>> project, even if the contributions aren't useful to other Wikimedia
>> projects (e.g., extensions that Wikimedia has no interest in).
>>
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