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