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