I am just hoping to prevent a repeat of ParserPP.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor
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wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Soxred93 <soxred93(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> > Keep in mind that when
MediaWiki is developed, the best interests of
> > Wikimedia are in mind. Wikimedia takes priority on MW development.
>
> Not as a general rule. If we really didn't care about third-party
> users, we'd require the very latest version of PHP (since Wikimedia
> uses it), write large chunks of the software in other languages
> (Wikipedia has Python installed), and so on. The suggestion to allow
> embedded Lua in templates seems not to be happening primarily because
> it would make Wikipedia content unusable by third parties on shared
> hosting.
>
> Although development of MediaWiki tends to focus primarily on
> Wikimedia's needs, it does *not* do so if that would significantly
> hurt MediaWiki's utility to third parties. Part of Wikimedia's goals
> is to make its content as useful as possible to third parties. That
> applies to MediaWiki insofar as it's a Wikimedia project, and doubly
> so insofar as it's needed to effectively use content from Wikimedia's
> other projects like Wikipedia.
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu
wrote:
> > What does this have to do with
not horribly breaking many extensions at
> the
> > same time? The WMF has cultivated an extension ecosystem and it makes
> sense
> > to protect it.
>
> Do you have evidence that many extensions are, in fact, horribly
> broken? And if so, that they can't be easily fixed?
>
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