On Dec 9, 2007 7:34 PM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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.)
Aahhhh... good ol' times...
And then somebody said - we can use this for Wikimedia
Commons!
Well, now you're just pulling my leg.
Oh wait...
Magnus