On 14 August 2011 13:46, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
The thread is about one of the following:
- .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki install and upload it to your own domain
to continue making edits, writing articles etc.
- .. getting better dumps of Wikimedia wikis in particular (ie. Wikipedia)
- .. being able to install MediaWiki easier or even online (like new wikis on
Wikia.com)
- .. making it easy for developers to fork the MediaWiki source code repository.
I was thinking of content and community forks specifically.
MediaWiki is ridiculously easy to set up and install. Setting up a copy to fully function like Wikipedia is somewhat more difficult.
Forking the MediaWiki codebase is not hard, but probably not a good idea. (The two cases I can think of are Citizendium and Wikia, and both now work with and on the mainline and put their local stuff in an extension.)
- d.