On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
*Not while they need to exist*. At the least, we need to document when a distro does something weirdarse.
I started filling in the list in terms of the directory structure. Hopefully one of the package maintainers will look at it (with Cunningham's Law applying as necessary).
(I see the MediaWiki page on the Debian wiki is proposed for deletion ...)
As it has been for four years. :-)
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I've long believed that MediaWiki should be considered a project of the WMF, on the same level as the wikis we host. Perhaps if we included donation requests on the download and installer pages then MediaWiki might be considered worthy of some attention in its own right?
If MediaWiki is currently underserved and would only receive attention
from the WMF by virtue of its revenue generation (rather than its contribution to the WMF's mission), maybe it needs a separate (subsidiary?) organization to address the needs of third-party users. Third-party users could donate money (or buy support, as with Canonical vis-à-vis Ubuntu) with the knowledge that it will be spent on the things they need done.
Anyway, musings aside, soliciting donations through the software could be a neat experiment.