On 11/29/2012 11:47 PM, rupert THURNER wrote:
hi quim,
you managed to confuse me :) i thought that it is a great idea to finally implement groups, and access control lists in mediawiki as first class citizen, like e.g. moinmoin has it. one enters one ACL line on top of the wiki wiki page see here for details: http://moinmo.in/HelpOnAccessControlLists
rupert.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, here you have a first draft about MediaWiki Groups, and implicitly MediaWiki reps:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups
MediaWiki groups organize open source community activities within the scope of specific topics and geographical areas. They extend the capacity of the Wikimedia Foundation in events, training, promotion and other technical activities benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the MediaWiki software.
:)
With this name I expected to confuse a few dozens of people in the entire World while they finish the first paragraph of the email.
I reality MediaWiki Groups names will be seen in certain context, making that confusion almost impossible:
"... presented by Mary Smith, from the MediaWiki HTML5 Group"
"... the booth will be run by the MediaWiki Bangalore Group volunteers"
"... the contest is organized by the MediaWiki Group Brazil"
"... this series of webinars have been produced by the MediaWiki UX Group"
etc
Imagine MediaWiki Germany Group, MediaWiki Lua Group...
These groups may become a significant source of growth and wider diversity of our community.
Please bring your ideas to the discussion page - or here. Thank you!