On Nov 20, 2003, at 01:13, Steve Cooney wrote:
Ok --but would it be better for MediaWiki if it had
some emphasis on its ability to branch out into
different, customized applications? By this, I mean
that, just as some have pointed out, MediaWiki aspires
to be more than just Wikipedia, and as such, people
will want use-specific packages, perhaps including
cut-down lite wiki versions (but with the benefit of
some newer bells and whistles). I know the whole thing
is actually pretty tiny anyway, though.
We certainly do want to make the code more generalized and modular;
even on the Wikimedia servers we're running other projects than just
Wikipedia: Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc have their own needs and it's in
everyone's interest to keep the main code base easy to work with, easy
to extend, and easy to upgrade without breaking custom changes.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)