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