[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

[Erik Moeller]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:45 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahem, The first of those were Hindi, and that was basically only after
> a B# fight in the bug report that there shouldn't be any restriction
> to installing it on the non en.wikipedia project

With any feature there are normal considerations about when it's ready
to be pushed out more widely. Having a feature that's under very
active development, with known issues, widely deployed beyond its
original staging ground can cause significant and avoidable burden.
That's what those discussions are about (which were mirrored by
internal conversations about readiness). There's no internal WMF
faction that argues for "only serving English Wikipedia", and there
never has been.

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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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