[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 04:43:13 UTC 2009


2009/7/1 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't see
>> how any of that would be fixed by community discussion. I'm not even
>> sure what community would discuss it - the core Mediawiki code is used
>> by far more than just the English Wikipedia (or even the whole of the
>> Wikimedia movement).
>
>
> I have not forgotten what many of you have.
>
> Any changes to the software must be gradual and reversible. We need to make
> sure that any changes contribute positively to the community, as ultimately
> determined by everybody in Wikipedia, in full consultation with the
> community consensus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales

You haven't responded to either of the points you quoted...



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