Guillaume Paumier wrote:
When the book's editor contacted us, he had in mind a traditional setup, where one or two subject matter experts would write the whole thing.
For reference: http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html.
I believe the final document will be extremely useful for new MediaWiki developers, and I hope that experienced developers will also find some use for it.
I doubt it. I do think you ought to be re-titled to "Storyteller," though. :-)
So please, take a few minutes to share your historical knowledge and opinions about MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture_document
Since nobody else has, I'll throw out two links: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki#History * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_history
There's also likely some decent content buried in the archives of wikitech-l and on Meta-Wiki. I don't really know what else you'd need when writing the history of MediaWiki that isn't already readily available (commit messages, mailing list posts, IRC chats, wikitech.wikimedia.org, mediawiki.org, etc.). Looking at some of the questions you're asking, though, this project seems to have very little to do with history in any traditional sense of the word.
You know what they say over at Wikipedia; Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.
I don't think anyone at Wikipedia says that.
MZMcBride