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

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/1 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 2009/7/1 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
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>> You haven't responded to either of the points you quoted...
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> Yes, I did. Your comments demonstrate my points. More technically minded
> folks believe that they can sit down and powwow about the technically best
> solution to a problem and can't even imagine what sort of input the
> community could possibly provide. It's totally backwards. The conversation
> should start on WikiEN-l, not wikitech-l. You have to first adequately
> characterize a problem before you start implementing solutions.

That's better done by surveying the community, not a community
discussion. Anyway, that's only one of the points you quoted. You're
still talking as if the English Wikipedia is the only site using
MediaWiki.