On 8/13/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
This is what they call the "not invented here" syndrome... There are good
reasons to make use of functionality that was developed elsewhere. For one,
it works and it works now.
It still requires effort for us to work into the interface. And it's
going (as far as I understand) to require users to go to a different
site, when we could with not too much more difficulty implement much
of the same functionality ourselves. Plus yes, we do indeed have a
bias against using proprietary software with Wikipedia, if we can
avoid it. In the case of databases of real-world information, the
only good sources are in many cases commercial and proprietary (for
now), so we don't have much of a choice. But for software, why should
we settle for closed-source when we can without too much more
difficulty use an open-source alternative?
Given that we have a problem in getting functionality
life, important
functionality like Single User Logon, it is not smart to think that we can
do it all, should do it all. We have proven conclusively that we cannot do
it.
Since Brion is the one working on SUL and no one's suggested that he
work on this, that's a rather irrelevant example.
On 8/13/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"We", Gerard? I don't see you developing
any software.
The institutional "we", Rob. I don't plan on doing anything with this
feature, but used "we" above, as in "we who are working (to whatever
extent, and in whatever capacity) to make MediaWiki and Wikimedia
projects better".