Hi Yuri, thank you for bringing up this.
On 04/17/2013 09:25 AM, Yury Katkov wrote:
Hi everyone!
So we've had some discussions that are summarized here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion/Summary
In this letter I want to point out to two projects that haven't been
organized by Wikimedias, but are still very useful for the people who think
about MW as of open source product:
1)
http://www.mwusers.com - MediaWiki forum. Many people prefer forums to
mailing lists and wikipages like Support desk. Moreover, MWusers is now a
good Q&A database.
Yes, a very useful community that solved promptly all my problems as a
3rd party MediaWiki superamateur sysadmin.
They are referenced in many pages. If you have other ideas just propose,
or edit directly.
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=mwusers&title=Special%3ASea…
2)
http://wikiapiary.com A wiki with various
statistics about MediaWiki
installations and statistics about extensions. I see the huge potential in
this project although it's only several months old. Template:Extension on
mediawiki.org have finally turned to something useful when the link to
wikiapiary had been added there.
I'm also impressed about this project. It's so good that I wondered who
made it, why and with which resources. :)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Extension has a field for it, and
therefore plenty of extensions link to it through "Check usage and
version matrix".
If WMF/Wikimedias interested in promoting MediaWiki
not as WMF project but
as a piece of open source software, it can be beneficial to help those
projects with information support (i.e links from
MediaWiki.org), funding
and cooperation.
Content and links in
mediawiki.org: just do it, right? The WMF as such
doesn't play a big role deciding here and each of us documents whatever
is related with our work and whatever we still have some time to improve
- just like anybody else.
Funding: the same doors are just as open for these initiatives as for
anybody else.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
Cooperation: any ideas? For instance, it would be great to get
mwusers.com involved in activities around improving QA or documentation.
This would save them some users posting questions about the same
problems originated by some problem in MediaWiki or
mediawiki.org.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil