Markus Glaser wrote:
It's so great to see this happen! The formation of the platform team clearly adds emphasis to the fact that MediaWiki is not only underlying Wikipedia and its sister projects, but is also widely used by thousands of sites on the internet and therefore a product of the Foundation in itself. There are a lot of external MediaWiki maintainers have been longing for clear leadership and a predictable roadmap for MediaWiki as a software product for quite some time. So this is a big step ahead.
I wish the team a good start and all the best for your work. If there's anything the MediaWiki Stakeholders Group can do to assist you, let us know!
There's a forked thread on mediawiki-l. Copying this feature wishlist link from there, as I found it interesting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/?curid=295301
Source: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2017-April/046477.html
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