On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:26 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 December 2010 08:24, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
To me (and
others), that leaves the question of what would happen if you wrote some
software that was actually built for making an encyclopedia, rather than the
jack of all trades product that MediaWiki is.
MediaWiki is precisely that software.
However - see also the other threads on other lists recently, about MW
core failings.
MW was designed to build an encyclopedia with Web 1.5 technology. It
was a major step forwards compared to its contemporaries, but sites
like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter are massive user experience advances
over where we are and can credibly go with MediaWiki.
So, to modify David's comment -
MediaWiki *was* precisely that software.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com