On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
What you're forgetting is that WMF abandoned MediaWiki as an Open Source project quite a while ago (at least 2 years ago).
{{citation needed}}
There was a WMF engineering meeting where it was announced internally. I was the only one that spoke against it. I can't give a citation to it because it was never announced outside of WMF, but soon after that third party support was moved to a grant funded org, which is the current status quo.
Don't want to air dirty laundry, but you asked ;).
- Ryan