On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
*Not while they need to exist*. At the least, we need
to document when
a distro does something weirdarse.
I started filling in the list in terms of the directory structure.
Hopefully one of the package maintainers will look at it (with Cunningham's
Law applying as necessary).
(I see the MediaWiki page on the Debian wiki is
proposed for deletion ...)
As it has been for four years. :-)
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
I've long believed that MediaWiki should be
considered a project of
the WMF, on the same level as the wikis we host. Perhaps if we
included donation requests on the download and installer pages then
MediaWiki might be considered worthy of some attention in its own right?
If MediaWiki is currently underserved and would only receive attention
from the WMF
by virtue of its revenue generation (rather than its
contribution to the WMF's mission), maybe it needs a separate (subsidiary?)
organization to address the needs of third-party users. Third-party users
could donate money (or buy support, as with Canonical vis-à-vis Ubuntu)
with the knowledge that it will be spent on the things they need done.
Anyway, musings aside, soliciting donations through the software could be a
neat experiment.