On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:53:01AM -0500, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
It sounds like your primary interest is porting
Wikipedia software to
your own machine, rather than improving the operation of the Wikipedia
itself. Is this correct?
No, that was my initial interest. But if I'm going to do a redesign, my
perfectionist streak says "Let's do it RIGHT". Doing it The Right Way
means solving the current problems with the software as well, including
scalability etc. I do entertain a little fantasy that the software
might one day be used to run the Wikipedia, and that I could put that on
my resume, but I recognize:
a) I can't make a replacement for the current Wikipedia software by
myself, without input from others
b) Someone else may come up with other software that the Wikipedia
community feels more comfortable developing.
So I leave myself a fallback position; even if Wikipedia doesn't adopt
the software, coding it won't have been a waste of my, or other peoples,
time.
Jonathan
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