Hi,
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah(a)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,
--
Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
http://donate.wikimedia.org