Re: [Mediawiki-enterprise] New Developments. Let's talk about it

-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 03/29/2013 01:30 PM, Richard Heigl wrote: > Hi Derric, > > thanks for your email. I know the Wikimedia Blog, but I just look at it every few weeks or months. :-( And if you or somebody else writes something most probably I don't see it. So I thought, we can organize that a bit, that messages can be spread. > > If somebody just posts a link and a comment in this MediaWiki enterprise list I'll get an email (!). That's completely different. Old school but effective :-D > > Have a nice weekend! > Richard > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: mediawiki-enterprise-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-enterprise-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Derric Atzrott > Gesendet: Freitag, 29. März 2013 18:04 > An: 'MediaWiki for enterprises' > Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-enterprise] New Developments. Let's talk about it > >> Dear all, >> >> this afternoon I was reading about the coming Flow extension. That's >> really great work. And I can't wait to work with it. >> And there are so many other interesting projects: Visual Editor, >> Parsoid, Athena skin, Echo, Lua, Wiki Data and so on. >> >> Despite of that MediaWiki you can see at Google Trends, that MediaWiki >> is still loosing attention. And in my opinion people just don't know, >> that MediaWiki is catching up. And they don't know, that it needs help. >> >> But this is important for all of us, that developers see, that >> MediaWiki is no longer a software of the "zero" years. >> >> So I suggest to publish more blog articles and social media posts about >> this new developments and if somebody has something nice to read, to >> discuss or to share gives a hint, so that the others can spread the news in their community. >> >> Best regards, >> Richard > > Good afternoon Richard, > > Have you seen the Wikimedia Foundation's blog? It is available at https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and they post to it several times a week. > > I agree though that there is not really enough promotion of the Mediawiki software. I try to share things that I read on the Wikimedia blog when they are interesting. > > It has always seemed strange to me how few people seem to know about Mediawiki and what it is capable of (likewise how few people understand how Wikipedia works). > > Thank you, > Derric Atzrott > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list > Mediawiki-enterprise@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list > Mediawiki-enterprise@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise