[Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

[Brian]

Perhaps, do you have a link? :)


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:

> On Sunday 11 January 2009 20:08:22 Brian wrote:
> > pointed out, "I would bet there's at least one template that uses a
> > ParserFunction on 75% or more of all the articles on enwiki." MediaWiki
> > effectively has a programming language in it because of a few hours of
> > developer work and a few minutes of conversation. A programming language
> > that, apparantly, cannot be reverted.
>
> That programming language was introduced solely because Wikipedia editors
> have
> already been using another programming language, which had the same
> capabilities, but used much more resources. If you can get Wikipedians not
> to
> use any programming language in their templates, you can effectively revert
> the change, and I don't see why the extension wouldn't be turned off
> afterwards.
>
> > I have been to the developer presentations at all but one Wikimania, and
> > they are dissapointing. I don't really see new ideas for features being
> > presented to the community, and I do not believe that the developers
> ideas
>
> Including mine? :)
>
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