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

[Brian]

Thanks Gerard, could you also inquire about the year before? I remember them
being in some obscure ftp directory, unlabeled.


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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