On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Wave might replace parts of MediaWiki but it would not
replace Wikipedia...
To appreciate this, you have to realise what it is the WMF stands for..
It stands for the Wikimedia Foundation.
It is content first and foremost.
No, it's a board of directors, and a staff, and a bunch of servers - none of
which are really required and all of which can and should be replaced.
If you want to say that whatever it is that replaces Wikipedia *is*
Wikipedia, fine, though you might have some trademark issues until the WMF
actually dissolves.
MediaWiki is our current software. It is
great software and it has great functionality. When the Wave software is
able to replace aspects of MediaWiki, you will find that it is possible to
integrate it into MediaWiki.
But MediaWiki is not a distributed platform. That's the problem. It's too
centralized, both technically and politically.
If there is a problem, it is with MediaWiki. Given its license it cannot
contribute back to Wave.. Wave functionality can be
incorporated in
MediaWiki because it does not have a viral license.
Huh? Wave does not have a license. Parts of it will be proprietary, parts
will be GPL, parts will be BSD, parts will be public domain.