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.
I'm primarily supportive of (B). I have no problems with MediaWiki
being accessible for other users, because if it is, then we'll attract
more developer talent, which is a good thing. But I think our primary
focus ought to be support of the encyclopedia project.
--Jimbo