"Parker Conrad" parker@wikinvest.com wrote in message news:b340aa380709191559m27f74addwaec32bb8be693ac4@mail.gmail.com...
- The modifications Wikinvest made to MediaWiki are not GPL (this
isn't
a
requirement of the GPL license) -- although, we're interested in
giving
back to the community. It was so helpful to have this great platform (MediaWiki) for us to build on and we'd love to contribute some of the stuff we've built on top of it back. There's a bunch of stuff we've
built
on top of the platform -- anyone have any suggestions for what we be useful to others? Of the stuff we've built, what do you guys want and think would be useful to the project?
Of course, if you are right and there is no _requirement_ to release
your
code, that doesn't stop you from doing so if you choose to, and the community would be grateful, I'm sure. The site has a lot of nice functionality, and a beautiful skin, but I would need to dig a bit
deeper
to be able to make any recommendations about things that might be useful elsewhere. My glib reaction would be 'all of it!' :-)
OK... not everything we've done modularizes very well, and the realities
of
capacity would mean we'd probably need to start with one component and
move
from there. And, some stuff (like the charts) probably doesn't make sense for anything but a stock wiki that has a stock data feed, so it probably doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time turning that into an extension. Anything in particular that people see that would be *most* desired so
we'd
be able to prioritize?
Sure - I understand that. I haven't looked into it in enough detail to answer your question, nor do I necessarily know what would be of a wide benefit (as opposed to things that I would personally find useful) but perhaps there are others here who would be able to give a useful response.
The only thing that leaps out at me is the skin, but that is less of a coding issue than one of design. Also the dynamic links to companies and concepts on the main page are pretty cool! :-)
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)