[Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
It is a question in the wrong order, the first question should be do you
think that the WMF projects will benefit from this. The second question
would be what does it take to make this happen. Wikia has had much more
incentive to concentrate on usability. It has many wikis that demonstrate
the effectiveness of their changes. Like the UNICEF extensions they are
based on a need and on observation.

When you ask will it be "easy", it is likely that you will find that it is
hard work and that several hard issues need to be resolved. The good news is
that this can be done together with Wikia and or UNICEF. *That* would make
the grant go that much further
Thanks,
       GerardM

2008/12/11 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be
> >> Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? If it is a fork, up to
> >> which extent it is compatible with the main MediaWiki? If it is an
> >> extension, where is the root of the extension?
> >
> > It's an extension plus some changes to the parser.
>
> Do you (and Brion! and other MW developers) have the idea is it hard
> to implement it into WMF projects?
>
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