Brion Vibber wrote:
Delirium wrote:
While I know there are plenty of logistical issues involved, I think from the point of view of the Foundation's charitable mission this is somewhat of a problem, because the point of producing Wikipedia is not just to put up an encyclopedia at *.wikipedia.org, but to produce encyclopedia articles that are Free and reusable by anyone. If the articles we distribute are only fully renderable by unreleased software or software that's particularly complex to set up and configure, that discourages third-party reuse.
And if that were true, I might agree.
But PHP 5 is neither unreleased nor particularly complex to set up. It's been in production for years, is widely available on thousands of free and for-pay hosting services, and can be installed on any home computer or server in a manner of minutes using any number of package installers.
I was speaking of the use of unreleased versions of MediaWiki and complex/undocumented extension setups (which extensions *are* enabled on Wikipedia anyway? I know LaTeX and Cite are; is that all?). PHP 5 is fine of course.
-Mark