On 07/06/12 03:36, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
The Foundation has made MediaWiki available for everyone and that's a great thing. But Wikimedia's funding comes from donations as a result of requests on Wikipedia, not from distribution of MediaWiki, so they are rightly focused on their production cluster.
I've long believed that MediaWiki should be considered a project of the WMF, on the same level as the wikis we host. Perhaps if we included donation requests on the download and installer pages then MediaWiki might be considered worthy of some attention in its own right?
-- Tim Starling