Hi,
With the possibility of mediawiki third party extensions, and the upcoming new and improved hook infrastructure, how does the mediawiki developer community feel about starting a mediawiki "collective", modeled on the plone community's hugely successful product collective (www.sf.net/projects/collective)
This is a separate project in sourceforge which would intentionally allow a very large number of developers each working on their own sub-projects. There are issues with quality control, much like there are with the wikipedia, but having a central clearing house for extensions (as well as all sorts of tools) might encourage more development along these lines.
We have recently developed a javascript based category browser. It won't work on the wikipedia itself, since that site has far more categories, but on smaller sized intranet installs, such a tool is invaluable.
I would be happy to request the project from sourceforge, but was wondering what other people thought about this idea.
best, /Jonah