[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

Stephen Bain stephen.bain at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 00:36:54 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> I would characterize WMF's prioritization as an "A rising tide lifts
> all boats" policy. Improvements are generally conceived to be widely
> usable, both in Wikimedia projects and even outside the Wikimedia
> environment, and to have the largest possible impact. Even if a first
> deployment is Wikipedia, they will generally benefit other projects as
> well.

I believe the correct name for that is the trickle-down effect :)

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Stephen Bain
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