Hi everyone!
So we've had some discussions that are summarized here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion/Summary
In this letter I want to point out to two projects that haven't been
organized by Wikimedias, but are still very useful for the people who think
about MW as of open source product:
1)
http://www.mwusers.com - MediaWiki forum. Many people prefer forums to
mailing lists and wikipages like Support desk. Moreover, MWusers is now a
good Q&A database.
2)
http://wikiapiary.com A wiki with various statistics about MediaWiki
installations and statistics about extensions. I see the huge potential in
this project although it's only several months old. Template:Extension on
mediawiki.org have finally turned to something useful when the link to
wikiapiary had been added there.
If WMF/Wikimedias interested in promoting MediaWiki not as WMF project but
as a piece of open source software, it can be beneficial to help those
projects with information support (i.e links from
MediaWiki.org), funding
and cooperation.
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Yury Katkov, WikiVote