Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave - Wikimedia-l

14 Aug 2011

On 14 August 2011 13:46, Krinkle &lt;krinklemail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  The thread is about one of the following:
 * .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki install and upload it to your own domain
 to continue making edits, writing articles etc.
 * .. getting better dumps of Wikimedia wikis in particular (ie. Wikipedia)
 * .. being able to install MediaWiki easier or even online (like new wikis on
 Wikia.com)
 * .. making it easy for developers to fork the MediaWiki source code repository. 

I was thinking of content and community forks specifically.

MediaWiki is ridiculously easy to set up and install. Setting up a
copy to fully function like Wikipedia is somewhat more difficult.

Forking the MediaWiki codebase is not hard, but probably not a good
idea. (The two cases I can think of are Citizendium and Wikia, and
both now work with and on the mainline and put their local stuff in an
extension.)

- d.