>
> This results from point #3. We do not want to depend on 3rd party in terms
> of content security and reliability
Not to be glib of course... but you mean like we depend on the commercial
hosts/datacenters and top tier connectivity.
I do think this point needs stressing though... going your
Hi there,
to sum it up a bit I have to say following:
1) FAQ vs. Q&A
There is a huge difference. FAQ is not really very participative, possibly not
answering correct questions. Asking a question already is a way of
participation in the project - we want to have more participation.
2) domain
as
In its July report American Customer Satisfaction Index [1] says:
"Social Media: Wikipedia (+1% to 78) takes the top spot, while YouTube
(+1% to 74) comes in a distant second. Myspace drops from this year’s
Index because there were not enough users to create a statistically
significant sample. Over
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 22:07, Thomas Morton
wrote:
>> True. But we don't need to use proprietary software for this.
>
> Why?
>
> Honest question; SE has sensible ideals and license their content well. Why
> add to the workload of our sysops and developers with another system to
> maintain and su
> There's a simple question: Can you run all key services relevant to
Wikimedia using only free/open software?
The question of "key service" is very interesting. If something were
considered to be a key service, I would definately say that it should be
managed by Wikimedia and, for practical reaso
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Oliver Moran wrote:
> The issues you raise about open-source vs. proprietary software, that's an
> open-source vs. proprietary software debate - and one that sounds like it is
> on the ideological edge of that arena. As a software engineer who develops
> proprietar
> From the perspective of our mission, they are indeed doing things
wrong. [From the perspective of running a small business, they may be
doing just fine.]
Our mission statement: "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to
empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop
educa
aude writes:
> I would like to see it located at help.wikimedia.org or
> help.en.wikimedia.org or something...
I would suggest ask.wikimedia.org
IMHO help.wikimedia.org is a bit ambiguous as it can mean
"Please help Wikimedia".
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Bastien
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Oliver Moran writes:
> There's no need to re-invent the wheel.
Note that "wikipedia" and "mediawiki" already appears in StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wikipedia?sort=votes&pagesize=15
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mediawiki?sort=votes&pagesize=15
Surpr
