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