On 07/01/07, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>My point in its simplest form was that there ARE
ways of doing VERY funky
>stuff. And I don't mean flashing animations, I mean stuff that actually
>makes MediaWiki run better, be easier to use, attract more users, etc.
Nobody is adverse to implementing any AJAX in MediaWiki where it will
be genuinely useful. As an example, Simetrical recently committed some
code adapted from a patch which makes it possible to watch/unwatch
pages using AJAX. It's very neat, works superbly and is a nice little
time-saver. Pending some minor tweaking, it will probably make it
live.
>Compatibility isn't that much of an issue
because:
Compatibility is always an issue. Absolutely always.
>If lack of developers and money is the only
problem then why not be more
>WIKI about it?
It's not a lack of developers or a lack of cash, although more of both
is always better.
Money pays for servers. Developers work for nothing.
We have two paid developers.
>Call to the Wikimedian community for volunteer
coders to help
>improve MediaWiki. Of course this is a lot more complex than I make it
>sound, but the point is that somewhere out there will be a professional AJAX
>coder willing to code free for Wikimedia. I know that if I knew the
>language, I'd do it.
There is an established process for improving MediaWiki. We also have
most of the AJAX framework in place.
Rob Church