2009/1/9 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
Why are so few community-developed mediawiki extensions used by the Foundation?
Why do developers have such priviledged access to the source code, and the community such little input?
Why must the community 'vote' on extensions such as Semantic MediaWiki, and yet the developers can implement any feature they like, any way they like it?
Why does the Foundation need 1 million for usability when amazing tools continue to be ignored and untested?
Why has the Foundation gone ahead and approved the hire of several employees for usability design, when the community has had almost zero input into what that design should be?
Why is this tool not being tested on Wikipedia, right now? http://wiki.ontoprise.com/ontoprisewiki/index.php/Image:Advanced_ontology_br...
Well... Maybe just because software development requires at least some basic knowledge of programming, and cannot be performed by voting only? I guess some feedback from Wikipedia community is welcome - but quite obviously programmers cannot work in a manner of discussing and voting every line of code they are assumed to produce...