On 5/9/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Lee Daniel Crocker-
I don't see how it's acceptable for us to agree to any conditions that affect our prerogatives for software use. We need to use whatever software best suits our purposes. WikiTeX is nice work, and we may very well end up using it or something similar.
Of course we're not going to install WikiTeX if we decide that there's a better option, but that seems unlikely. WikiTeX is one of the most requested features from our users. What has been holding up its setup are not criticisms of its functionality, but security considerations. As I see it, if we do this, the Board will ask Brion, as a paid Wikimedia employee, to assist Peter in the security review and evaluation of
Where do users log such feature requests? I see four people have voted for the relevant bug, which was filed six weeks ago: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792
I don't think the "paid Wikimedia employee" has much to do with this process. Of course the person best positioned to judge security considerations may indeed by SPARTA^B^B^B^Brion ...
This makes it necessary for English language derived names like Wiktionary to be localized, which then leads to confusion when you go to a domain like pl.wiktionary.org and end up on a site called Wikisłownik.
This is confusing? Hopefully not, if you know any Polish! The Red Cross and similar orgs seem to do just fine with translations into many languages. So does Wikipedia, in fact.
SJ