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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The Wikimania presentations of Alexandria are no longer online.. I am trying
to find out if a backup exists..
Thanks,
      GerardM

PS If you have a copy of the Merrick Schaeffer presentation, I would be
happy to learn that you do..

2009/1/11 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>

> 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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