[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] open positions at WMF

[Samuel Klein]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Isarra Yos <zhorishna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dogfooding our product is great but shouldnt' be done "just because" it
>> should be done where the product makes sense for the task.

Supporting more flexible designs - particularly in the realm of
extensions - would be good for Mediawiki in the long term, however.

> MediaWiki is good for revision control and some forms of categorisation and
> has all our users. Wordpress works for blog displaying and organising pages
> and tagging stuff and generally throwing it at the readers. What I am
> suggesting would take both of those, stuff the -admin interface and editing
> and revisions into mediawiki, but have wordpress handle the content and
> displaying it to readers (just dealing with the current revisions on that
> end)... in a mediawiki skin, even, and then... well, explode, probably.
>
> I dunno, if it didn't explode I know plenty of folks who would use this, but
> it probably wouldn't actually help Wikimedia that much, considering what
> they're apparently looking for specifically.

And there are already extensions such as
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WPMW  and
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WordPress_Comments