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.