2009/7/1 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/7/1 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
You haven't responded to either of the points you quoted...
Yes, I did. Your comments demonstrate my points. More technically minded folks believe that they can sit down and powwow about the technically best solution to a problem and can't even imagine what sort of input the community could possibly provide. It's totally backwards. The conversation should start on WikiEN-l, not wikitech-l. You have to first adequately characterize a problem before you start implementing solutions.
That's better done by surveying the community, not a community discussion. Anyway, that's only one of the points you quoted. You're still talking as if the English Wikipedia is the only site using MediaWiki.