Virgil Ierubino wrote:
If we can answer this question, developmental
direction is made clear. It is
easy to develop MediaWiki with view to improving it, streamlining it,
ironing out bugs - but much more difficult to look beyond it; for the future
of Wikimedia projects and general wiki success, new software must emerge
that caters for the new functions required by modern wiki users.
Do you ask that as part of the dev team, even remotely?
I don't mean to be rude, but it's the 3549684 message on that topic on
various media (and various software, each software has its own),
and—except if initiated and monitored by the dev team—it's not doing any
good or going anywhere.