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From:
Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Comparisons to Confluence (was Minimalist MediaWiki? (was Re: Merge Vector extension into core))
To: Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey,
For corporate adoption, the main thing MediaWiki needs is not some
> particular feature. It needs to be supported. It needs an organisation
> with people who will care if corporate users are screwed over by a
> change. It needs community management, so that the features needed by
> corporate users will be discoverable and well-maintained, rather than
> developed privately, over and over. And it needs the smallest nudge of
> promotion, on top of what Wikipedia fans are doing for it. Say, a
> nice-looking website aimed at this user base.
>
> This is not something WMF is interested in doing, that has been made
> extremely clear in the last year.
>
Agree, I also think this is the main issue, and know other people active
with MW outside WMF think the same.
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw
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