On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Chris Lewis yecheondigital@yahoo.com wrote:
If Wordpress is like Windows 7, then Mediawiki is Windows 2000. Very outdated GUI, outdated ways of doing things,for example using ftp to edit the settings of the wiki instead of having a direct interface like Wordpress. Mediawiki makes millions more than Wordpress does too, why can't the money be put into making a modern product instead of in pockets of the people who run it?
Wordpress is funded by a for-profit corporation, while MediaWiki is funded by a not-for-profit charity, so I think you have that backwards. :)
In short, it's time to spend some money from those millions of dollars from donations to make this software more modern. Being stubborn in modernizing it will only make this software less relevant in the future if other wiki software companies are willing to do things the people at Wikimedia aren't.
That's fine. MediaWiki is designed for use by Wikimedia, and is an excellent tool for that task. Wikimedia doesn't need most of the features you asked for, so MediaWiki doesn't have them. It's great that other people use our software -- that's why we release it -- but if they can find some other package that's better suited to their needs, good for them.
Of course, if you or anyone else would be interested in becoming a MediaWiki developer for the purpose of improving its admin experience for small users, that would be great. No one much has stepped forward to do that, though, so it hasn't gotten done.
Wikimedia is not a "wiki software company", by the way.