At 09:39 +0000 9/12/07, David Gerard wrote:
(Magnus Manske came down from Cambridge and I found out why MediaWiki's written in PHP. See, Nupedia was written in PHP, Magnus learnt PHP to patch the code, UseMod was getting limiting so Magnus wrote a new wiki script to learn PHP in ... *shudder* Like building a skyscraper from Lego and gaffer tape. And now we live in it.)
And then somebody said - we can use this for Wikimedia Commons!
Gordo