On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:18:03 -0800, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 12/6/11 1:55 PM, Dan Nessett wrote:
This is a (admittedly long and elaborate) question, not a proposal. I ask it in order to learn whether anyone has given it or something like it some thought.
Has anyone thought of creating MW 2.0? I mean by this, completely rewriting the application in a way that may make it incompatible with MW 1.x.y.
In that case why not use some other wiki software? There are quite a few. See <//http://www.wikimatrix.org/%3E.
If you're willing to jettison all existing wiki data I'm not sure I would recommend MediaWiki for a fresh start. I would in many cases, but not all.
In any case, the WMF already have people working on a new parser, and a new GUI editor. If both of those projects reach fruition I would call that 2.0-worthy right there. Also, the new parser should provide us with some means to transition to a different wiki syntax if we think it's a good idea.
If we wanted to *really* get radical, then we'd think about changing the storage model too, but you might as well rename it by that point.
Title, User, PageOutput, and Skin rewrites not radical enough for a 2.0?