From: Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler examples?

After working with the API for a while I had a head-explodes moment when I realized that MediaWiki is now a generic framework for collaboratively fashioning

and editing

content objects, and that it provides a generic implementation of a

creative workflow

based on the concepts of versioning, diffing, etc. I think it's a

fucking amazing

model for the web and I hope MediaWiki's code and community is nimble

enough to fully

realize it.

I agree. Wikis can do lots more than create documents, and we've only started down that road. ContentHandler is a step in this direction, and our project is as well. I'd love to have conversations about all this. I'm based in the Bay Area, by the way, even though our project is based in Canada.

Lee Worden