On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Marcus Buck wiki@marcusbuck.org wrote:
It certainly can be improved. As I said, my main concern is not bugfixing, but development. Like the implementation of a common image repository, parser functions, single user login to name some from the past. The HTML5 upload is smaller, but it's a new feature and not a bugfix.
Feature requests go on Bugzilla too.
Nikola Smolenski has done great work on Interwiki transclusion. But nothing has happened since two years. If I were a member of the tech department at Wikimedia, I'd be enthused and would put all my energy in reviewing his code, straigthening out any remaining problems and making it real as soon as possible. I mean, making interwiki bots obsolete, making obsolete like hundreds of thousands edits per day, that would be an amazing improvement, wouldn't it? This dormancy worries me.
There is no dormancy. You are making the cardinal error of feature requests: assuming that if you think something is important, everyone else must too. Quite simply, other people aren't as interested as you in this particular feature. They're working on other things that they feel are more interesting or important. In the end, the people who are doing the work, or paying for it, call the shots on where resources are invested -- there is nothing that can change that.