[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

[Jon Davis]

I can't speak for the entire Wikinews community, but a lot of it was the
lack of technical assistance.  There was one major item which Wikinews
_really_ need to be even remotely useful and it was very difficult to get
any help at all.  Eventually the community wrote the extension themselves
but couldnt get the dev's to review it appropriately.  This was drawn out
over several years, and (at least from my view) the Foundation really
started to turn around and give much better support starting about 1 year
ago.

There is also a host of other backend and support style related issues...
but they are ones that the Foundation really wasn't well equipped to handle
in the first place.  Simply put, the Wikinews concept needs a much more
specific set of assistance than the general "Here's a wiki, have fun".

-Jon

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:14, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:59:34PM -0400, Chris Lee wrote:
> > I didn't mean what is a fork, or how to fork etc...
> >
> > I meant more along the lines of the difference in scope, guidelines. Why
> did
> > they break off?
>
> For starters, they weren't happy with the server maintenance by WMF. They
> couldn't get essential components deployed for 2 years or so.
>
> I'm not sure what the entire set of circumstances was. Someone should
> probably
> do a debrief and postmortem.
>
> sincerely,
>         Kim Bruning
>
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