Hi,
With the possibility of mediawiki third party extensions, and the upcoming
new and improved hook infrastructure, how does the mediawiki developer
community feel about starting a mediawiki "collective", modeled on the plone
community's hugely successful product collective
(
www.sf.net/projects/collective)
This is a separate project in sourceforge which would intentionally allow a
very large number of developers each working on their own sub-projects.
There are issues with quality control, much like there are with the
wikipedia, but having a central clearing house for extensions (as well as
all sorts of tools) might encourage more development along these lines.
We have recently developed a javascript based category browser. It won't
work on the wikipedia itself, since that site has far more categories, but
on smaller sized intranet installs, such a tool is invaluable.
I would be happy to request the project from sourceforge, but was wondering
what other people thought about this idea.
best,
/Jonah