[Foundation-l] The Ideal Wiki Software

[Tangotango]

Although I didn't have any plans to make the image search into a MediaWiki
extension (the original concept was rather different), your proposal is
certainly interesting and useful (not to mention not too outlandish), so I
will keep it in mind.

The reliability of the toolserver is a real issue, but one of the strengths
of coding a standalone toolserver tool versus coding a MediaWiki extension
is that developers get more freedom tweaking and improving the code
(sometimes on a whim), which means new features can suddenly crop up
overnight. With MediaWiki, you have to make sure the thing actually works ;)

Cheers,

Tangotango

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brianna Laugher [mailto:brianna.laugher at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:12 PM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The Ideal Wiki Software
> 
> A lot of attention suddenly. :) Any chance you could make it a
> full-blown extension rather than a toolserver job? (
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8738 )
> 
> We already have a lot of super-useful/critical tools relying on the
> toolserver, and as we can well see, it's not always so
> reliable...anything super-useful/critical is best off ultimately as
> part of MediaWiki.
> 
> Wait, that was the original point to my post! ;)
> 
> Anyway I and the other Commoners will await such developments with
> interest.
> 
> cheers,
> Brianna