Wikipedia : MediaWiki - Wikitech-l

20 Dec 2003

Jimbo wrote:
...
 I'm primarily supportive of (B).  I have no
problems with 
MediaWiki being accessible for other users, because if it is, 
then we'll attract more developer talent, which is a good 
thing.  But I think our primary focus ought to be support 
of the encyclopedia project.  
So I guess the needs of Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, and Wikisource (not 
to mention Wikitravel) are secondary then? MediaWiki should serve /all/ of 
Wikimedia and also our friends over at Wikitravel. However by doing so it 
will become a general use wiki that can be used for many non-Wikimedia 
projects. 

But please lets stop supporting Wikipedia-centracism/chauvinism and work 
toward making MediaWiki maximally useful to all Wikimedia projects.  

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)