Daniel Mayer wrote:
So I guess the needs of Wiktionary, Wikiquote,
Wikibooks, and
Wikisource (not to mention Wikitravel) are secondary then?
As I understood Jimbo and Brion, the priority is Wikipedia, *more or
less* including the affiliated Wikimedia projects. Really *secondary*
are third party projects, mirroring the Wikipedia or using the MediaWiki
software for other tasks. I think, the message was, that MediaWiki is
not supposed to become a second TikiWiki Groupware- Content- Management-
Calendaring- And- Whatever- One- Stop- Catch-All solution.
But please lets stop supporting
Wikipedia-centracism/chauvinism and
work toward making MediaWiki maximally useful to all Wikimedia
projects.
That's simply the way Open Source works. It's developer-centric, not
user-centric; coders are rulers, because they can code; because they
aren't paid, they are coding what they like to use for themselves; if
they would be paid, maybe some project manager could give them tasks to
code, but they aren't. In lucky cases, the interests of developers and
users come together, but usually developers won't code stuff for users
they don't need for themselves. People who want to have problems solved
have to become coders, or just take what the developers give away. If
there *are* developers using other WikiMedia projects, they *will*
enhance it; if there aren't, features needed for other WikiMedia
projects will *maybe* implemented sometime if a developers feels like
doing so. Features needed by third party users will most probably be
never implemented by the core developers. It's simply a matter of
priorities.
Regards, -asb