[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

[David Gerard]

On 5 September 2013 20:03, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

> Mediawiki is indeed the most versatile platform, but that just means
> it's okay at most things. It doesn't mean it's better than other
> platforms explicitly designed for a particular job ;-)


Wordpress is a ridiculously better blog platform than MediaWiki will ever be.


> I'd prefer self-hosting on general principle, but if our operations
> people say it's better and more stable hosted elsewhere - and
> presumably they have - then fair enough.


I would worry only about our privacy policies for users - will we use
our own database of users? Will people need to log in with a
Wordpress.com accoun to comment? Can we say precisely what data
Wordpress will get?


- d.