On 6/19/07, Mark Clements gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
"Rob Church" robchur@gmail.com wrote in message news:e92136380706161037v50341f7cxf1effc3c56642975@mail.gmail.com...
I think it's very important to remember that MediaWiki is a product which is used in thousands of installations across the world, to power the collaborative editing and information sharing needs of a wide variety of organisations, from fan projects to schools, colleges and universities, to whacking great big, well-known companies such as Intel and Novell.
Slight tangent here...
The traditional stance has always been "MediaWiki is software written to run Wikimedia projects". If you want to use it for other purposes then fine, but we're not going to add features that aren't useful to WMF (particularly in relation to access-restrictions and the user/group model).
What you're saying here seems to be the opposite of that. I am confused!
Well, taking the position that we won't add major features to the core that aren't used by the Wikimedia projects doesn't also entail that we won't have regard to other users of the software when making significant changes that may break things for them :) I think that's more what Rob was getting at, since he was replying to a message about making basic functionality dependent on CSS and JS.