Hi,
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
A cool software history project, "Architecture of Open Source Applications," asked MediaWiki for a short history of our software. So we're collecting your historical knowledge, stories and opinions on MediaWiki's architecture. Go to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture_document
to find out more, and go to the orange "Add your piece." box to share your thoughts. We have a few questions for you to answer.
I want to stress how important it is for the MediaWiki community to be actively involved in this.
When the book's editor contacted us, he has in mind a traditional setup, where one or two subject matter experts would write the whole thing.
We decided to go with a more inclusive, collaborative process, for two reasons:
* We know the Power of The Crowd; the more eyeballs, the better. The collective history of MediaWiki is recorded in wikis, mailing lists, and commits, but most importantly, in the experience, memories and opinions of its developers.
* The one or two subject matter experts who could have been able to write the whole thing were too busy actually doing stuff, to spend too much time writing a chapter on this. By using a crowd-sourced, collaborative process, we split the workload, and it allows Sumana and I to support the community more effectively.
I believe the final document will be extremely useful for new MediaWiki developers, and I hope that experienced developers will also find some use for it.
So please, take a few minutes to share your historical knowledge and opinions about MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture_document
You know what they say over at Wikipedia; Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.
Please share what you know.
Thanks,