On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Casey Dentinger <cdentinger(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
and in
technology we're years behind the curve
I think this is a reductive view of the technology at WMF. It is true
that many systems have been around in name for a long time, but that
doesn't mean they haven't been evolving under the hood (as Ori describes)
to scale with demand at the same (or better) pace as our trendier peers
(who are often married to fly-by-night technologies). In an era of 10s
pageloads hauling megabytes of trackware, WP's stats are actually pretty
stellar.
True, by all means. But my point (clumsily phrased) was that we will not
likely be considered more technologically advanced than Google or Apple,
while we really ARE more proficient in terms of the social systems and
community collaboration. My only regret is that we way too rarely reiterate
how amazing we are. The fact that we do a lot of great tech stuff, too is a
reason to celebrate (and my apologies to anyone who read my comment as
disparaging our work there).
Let me put it this way: it is great we have the tech as robust and advanced
as it is. This is awesome. Let's also recognize the fact that our
communities, working together with the WMF, is something unique, to avoid
the narrow vision of "evil foundation" vs. "unreasonable and random
crowd".
dj