On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:58:56 -0700, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
On 08/27/2012 12:04 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
We need some sort of think tank (well some thing with a better name) non-profit that people donate to. To have it hire people to crank out MediaWiki features outside of just the stuff WMF wants.
I'd love to spend 80% of my time cranking out fringe MediaWiki features where what the community wants and what my specialties are intersect.
To borrow from the great Amir: +[[Crore]]
Yes, what the world needs is another horribly confusingly named foundation. After we establish the MediaWiki Foundation, we can start work on the MikiWedia Foundation and the WediaMiki Foundation. ;-)
In all seriousness, this has come up a few times before (on wikitech-l and mediawiki-l, I believe) and it deserves thoughtful consideration. I think the first step is to write a draft somewhere on MediaWiki.org detailing:
- what you view as the current deficiencies of the Wikimedia Foundation
owning/operating MediaWiki; and
- what possible problems might be solved (or created!) by the
establishment of a MediaWiki Foundation.
A discussion of some analogous organizations (such as Mozilla) might be good as case studies to include in such a page as well.
MZMcBride
As you command oh great catalyst[1]. Done in true developer style "[RFC] MediaWiki Foundation": https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation
[1] Hope you don't mind. I found it amusing. And it kind of fits in a positive way.