I dislike the idea of blogging in mediawiki - mediawiki is a collaborative site, not a blog - there is already something (wikinoodle or something if I can remember right) which is wordpress, joomla! and mediawiki combined.

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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:30:42 -0600
> From: scream@datascreamer.com
> To: jwalsh@wikimedia.org; comproj@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [ComProj] Hello and a question
>
> Jay Walsh wrote:
> > Hi all - I know there have been challenges in getting this group going -
> > and I thank Sean and the others for their patience.
> >
> > Barring an IRC meeting (and I do want to participate there as well) I
> > have a couple of quick questions.
> >
> > How many do we have on this group list altogether? I should probably be
> > able to find that out on the list page.
> >
> > Secondly, we've now got the software in place for a wordpress blog at
> > blog.wikimedia.org. It's in the freezer for now (i.e. not operating :)
> > but not for long.
> >
> > What I'm wondering is if we have any pros on this list, or if we could
> > recruit someone, who could revamp the graphics template slightly to make
> > it look a bit more wikimedia-esque. It will always be on a page all its
> > own, but I'd at least like it to look/feel as much like the WMF wiki as
> > possible.
> >
> > Eventually we want to unleash some new mediawiki coding/functionality
> > that will allow us to have blogging convention built right into the
> > mediawiki system - so there'd be no transition. I suspect a huge number
> > of media wiki users would treasure this option.
> >
> > Any thoughts? Let's discuss...
> >
> >
> Just as a suggestion, I would replace the WikiMedia Fundraising logo,
> with perhaps "Wikimedia Blog".
>
> ./scream
>
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