In an ideal world, what features would the ideal Wiki Software have, and what would it be like?
If we can answer this question, developmental direction is made clear. It is easy to develop MediaWiki with view to improving it, streamlining it, ironing out bugs - but much more difficult to look beyond it; for the future of Wikimedia projects and general wiki success, new software must emerge that caters for the new functions required by modern wiki users.
What functions would set MediaWiki well above all other wiki engines for years to come? What features would make it the most efficient wiki engine? **What would the software be like if it generated maximal wiki success?**
To discuss this (what I find an interesting) question, I've set up a page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Ideal
Obviously the answers to these questions won't necessarily be possible to implement; but it would be interesting to know the answers nonetheless.
Look forward to some bright ideas :)
Hoi, What is great about MediaWiki is its capability for localisation. This is what sets it apart from other wiki-engines. There is however room for improvement. It would help the smaller projects if much of the maintenance where drastically improved. The long awaited integration of the "BetaWiki" functionality in MediaWiki proper and its integration in the Incubator is part of it. Some responsiveness for localisation issues like with the Marathi projects is another.
When a new recognised language is to be considered for MediaWiki, the first thing to do is to make the appropriate language file and be able to distribute it.
Thanks, GerardM
Virgil Ierubino schreef:
In an ideal world, what features would the ideal Wiki Software have, and what would it be like?
If we can answer this question, developmental direction is made clear. It is easy to develop MediaWiki with view to improving it, streamlining it, ironing out bugs - but much more difficult to look beyond it; for the future of Wikimedia projects and general wiki success, new software must emerge that caters for the new functions required by modern wiki users.
What functions would set MediaWiki well above all other wiki engines for years to come? What features would make it the most efficient wiki engine? **What would the software be like if it generated maximal wiki success?**
To discuss this (what I find an interesting) question, I've set up a page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Ideal
Obviously the answers to these questions won't necessarily be possible to implement; but it would be interesting to know the answers nonetheless.
Look forward to some bright ideas :)
On 23/01/07, Virgil Ierubino virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote:
What functions would set MediaWiki well above all other wiki engines for years to come?
I believe one of the features that *does* set it above the others, at least in large wiki use cases, is the incredible support it has to scale to millions of simultaneous users all reading, editing, arguing etc. We have support for database replication, a nifty load balancer, support for a number of object caches including memcached, and the smaller, one-machine caches that things like APC and eAccelerator provide. We have extensive support for Squid caches and for appropriate purging of these caches.
To discuss this (what I find an interesting) question, I've set up a page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Ideal
Why, oh why are people still creating *software* pages on Meta? We've got the http://www.mediawiki.org domain; we're trying to move anything MediaWiki related *away* from Meta, to leave more room for all that Foundation bickering, and so we know where we stand.
I also think this page is a little redundant. We don't want wiki pages cataloguing feature requests; we have a bug/enhancement tracker for that purpose.
Obviously the answers to these questions won't necessarily be possible to implement; but it would be interesting to know the answers nonetheless.
Are you offering to implement some, or at least one of them? When I randomly ask users for feature requests, sometimes they're small and easy, and sometimes I get a flood of ideas which I can't implement right that minute, but it always sets me thinking about possible future enhancement.
Rob Church
On 23/01/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
To discuss this (what I find an interesting) question, I've set up a page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Ideal
Why, oh why are people still creating *software* pages on Meta? We've got the http://www.mediawiki.org domain; we're trying to move anything MediaWiki related *away* from Meta, to leave more room for all that Foundation bickering, and so we know where we stand. I also think this page is a little redundant. We don't want wiki pages cataloguing feature requests; we have a bug/enhancement tracker for that purpose.
It's more of a blue-sky discussion. A lot of this stuff won't be concrete enough to be a feature request for a while.
- c.
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