On 04/03/2013 03:30 AM, Ori Livneh wrote:
That seems wrong. Of the two,
MediaWiki.org is clearly
the more
successful wiki. It is larger by all measures, and draws a wide pool
of active contributors.
I don't know that it's appropriate to put WMF-only stuff on the
MediaWiki site. Of course, I'm not totally convinced merging the other
way is a good idea other. Although there's overlap between MW proper
and the WMF tech, we have to remember they're distinct.
Based on Ryan's email, a merge may not in fact be intended, though I
agree that's what "wikitech.wikimedia.org would become the one and only
site for our open source software contributors" sounded like.
Semantic this-and-that and ontologies of categories
entails putting
up rails everywhere and signs with arrows on them indicating which
way you should go. That approach will inevitably end up reflecting a
narrow, inflexible view of what a wiki is and what you do with it.
There is a role for the semantic web (e.g. Wikidata seems to be quickly
heading in the right direction). At the same time, I agree that the
wiki must not get in the way of simple writing.
Matt Flaschen