On 8 June 2012 02:32, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I've long believed that MediaWiki should be
considered a project of
the WMF, on the same level as the wikis we host.
It's quite definitely on-mission: it makes this form of
knowledge-spreading normal and expected.
(Of course, just consider the perennial cries for WMF support from
non-Wikipedia products ...)
Perhaps if we
included donation requests on the download and installer pages then
MediaWiki might be considered worthy of some attention in its own right?
A "help MediaWiki, donate to WMF" link next to the download button
strikes me as entirely appropriate. I assume our fundraising includes
some way to tell what links are on the path to a given successful
donation.
- d.