On Dec 20, 2003, at 05:30, zocky wrote:
A) MediaWiki is a general purpose wiki infrastructure,
which also runs
Wikipedia. Developers of MediaWiki should concentrate on making the
best
possible software and editors of Wikipedia should take advantage of new
features as they're provided.
B) MediaWiki is support infrastructure for Wikipedia. Editors of
Wikipedia
should decide what kind of behaviour and which features Wikipedia
needs and
developers of MediaWiki should implement them.
C) MediaWiki's primary user is Wikipedia and most of the developers are
Wikipedians. We do want to be easy to setup and use generally, but most
of us are going to be working on what we think would be good for
Wikipedia. As volunteers in our spare time, none of us are bound to
implement behaviors and features that other people think would be nice,
whether on Wikipedia or not.
Others' opinions may vary of course; Evan runs Wikitravel for instance
and may have different particular interests.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)