An'n 04.09.2010 02:43, hett Andrew Garrett schreven:
Perhaps your time would be better-spent arguing for
the importance of
projects that you feel are neglected, rather than picking holes in
projects that you think might be unnecessary.
I didn't deem any project
unnecessary and I didn't pick any holes. All
the projects are useful. But if I say "I'd like more focus on project X"
and the answer is "our resources are limited and we want to work on
projects Y and Z first" than my options are to either provide more
resources (which I can't) or to argue that X is more important than Z.
I have tried to argue for the projects that I feel are important on
several occasions, but the answer was "yeah, nice idea, do it yourself".
Putting feature requests on Bugzilla is ineffective too
(<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164> exists since 2004
and still people invest thousands of working hours removing diacritics
in category sorting keys). And that's why I made suggestions to focus
more on development of features.
I have a whole list of features that we lack. Another one is better
multilingual support. Commons is multilingual, but the software doesn't
support multilingualism on content pages well. Commons created a whole
bunch of rather esoteric templates to work around the limitations of
MediaWiki. Template:ISOdate is used to render dates in a localized
format. It's used on 6.5 million pages and it's logic is rather complex.
I guess it would be a big performance gain for Commons if MediaWiki
would natively support the functionality of ISOdate.
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox