Rob
Could you make sure that is it clear who said what?
I only said some of this below. It is not clear who said the rest.
Cheers!
Gordo
At 20:21 +0000 7/1/07, Rob Church wrote:
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
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