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Rob Church wrote:
On 06/01/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
While we run the Subversion repository
You don't, it's on leuksman.com, which is Brion's personal server. svn.wikimedia.org resolves to leuksman through DNS.
This is as much just to isolate it as anything else, though. More people have SSH access for committing (though with a restricted shell), and the machine automatically runs the updated parser tests, so I'm leery of putting that in our core cluster.
If a MediaWiki committer (or someone who gets into one of their computers or SSH keys) abuses that, they can only really use it try to hack into my blog.
In theory we could isolate some of that better and go ahead and host it in the main cluster, or move it elsewhere.
My view is that we should make this the consistent, official view and consistently promote and list MediaWiki as a Wikimedia Foundation project wherever other Wikimedia projects are listed. My hope is that, in doing so, we will make MediaWiki more prominent and attract more volunteers to work on it, just as on other Wikimedia Foundation projects. I also believe that this will help in making MediaWiki strategy a key part of the Foundation's general project strategy.
Legally, the Foundation has "MediaWiki" as a registered trademark.
There was some controversy over this, primarily in that it was a surprise to those of us who worked on the software at the time.
The position I took then was that Wikimedia is MediaWiki's number one _customer_, but not necessarily _owner_.
We never really got around to figuring out a compromise or alternate ownership of the name that I know of, and now Tim and I are on the foundation's payroll, so I don't know whether or not we care about making a distinction like that anymore.
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