Hi Mariya,
Just to clarify one thing: the "wontfix" that was applied on the use of
Semantic MediaWiki for WMF wikis really only covers the main,
general-interest wikis: Wikipedia, Wikiquote, etc. SMW is in fact already
in use on one WMF wiki, Wikimedia Labs. As far as I know, there has been no
real discussion of using the software on
mediawiki.org specifically.
-Yaron
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Maria Miteva <mariya.miteva(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hello everyone,
I want to bring up the main issues we have identified with third-party
users so far to the MW community and the first one is extensions
management. I heard from many of you that you would like to see
improvement in extensions management on
mw.org.
Here is a summary of what I've heard so far on email and
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion:
The most important thing is to be able to immediately see the
compatibility of a given extension with MW versions. If compatibility
testing can be automated, that would be best. Additionally, people want
to have some rating of extensions based on the quality of code,
vulnerability, usefulness,etc. Statistics like number of downloads can be
used as a market of quality as well. More visibility should be given to
good extensions. Extensions can be separated in categories based on what
they do so they can be found easily. Some suggest the use of SMW on
MW.org
to organize extensions even though the use of SMW on WMF websites has been
discussed and decided as a wontfix (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8390#c24) . Also, Yury
Katkov suggested Article
Feedback<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_Feedback>
can
be used for rating or WikiVote could provide some of their voting systems.
Before I bring the issue up to the community, I would love to hear
everybody's feedback. Here are some questions to consider :
1. Is extensions management a significant issue for you? Would you
like to see efforts focused on it?
2. What should extensions be rated on?
3. Who should be rating extensions?
4. How could it be implemented reusing existing resources maximally?
5. What else would be useful to have in extensions management?
6. Are there any good examples on how it's done on other platforms you
would like to point out?
7. Let me know if you would be willing to/available to help with
specification, implementation, testing, or anything else.
Also, add any other comments/information. I want to have as much details
as possible on what people would like to see happen.
I will be sending similar emails about other "popular" issues soon.
Mariya
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