Talk:MediaWiki/Archive 1

Starling quote

 * My own work on free software, mainly on MediaWiki, has been motivated by generosity, and of course the satisfaction, reputation and esteem that comes from generosity. I don't want to change the world, I just want to give stuff away.
 * Tim Starling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling/Free_software

Moved above quote from page to talk page. -- Cirt (talk) 17:56, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Range of degrees
I think that there is a range of degrees of quotability represented on this page. The most quotable, I would say, is:
 * A notable irony of Wikipedia's popularity is that the editing process of its supporting technology, MediaWiki, is complex to learn. Editing Wikipedia pages requires significant investment to learn MediaWiki's unique and powerful code structure.

By contrast, I think the following quote is a completely unquoteworthy laundry list of applications: BD2412 T 01:57, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Canonical has also compiled almost 100 new Charms -- Ubuntu's name for a configuration package for Juju--covering applications such as Memcache, Hadoop, Tomcat, MongoDB, MediaWiki and WordPress.
 * Thank you, I've gone ahead and removed that quote. Any others in particular to retain and/or remove? -- Cirt (talk) 01:59, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Moved some quotes to talk page

 * One particularly notable technical aspect of MediaWiki is the provision for third-party extensions, which add functionality to the wiki engine without the need to disturb the core code.


 * Development of MediaWiki is now directed by the Foundation, handled by a small team of paid developers, and supported by many volunteers.


 * We believe that wikis offer an easy to grasp metaphor for large-scale collaboration and social networking and that MediaWiki is a flexible platform for integrating resources and supporting access to them through REST APIs.


 * The architecture of MediaWiki is driven in large part by the idiosyncrasies of PHP. When MediaWiki was first developed, it used PHP 4.x, which lacked much in the way of object-oriented programming features.


 * A well-known product of the open source software MediaWiki is the interactive online encyclopaedia Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org).


 * The site is based on Wikipedia's MediaWiki platform, which allows anyone to add or edit the available content, provided they register for an account using a verifiable email address.


 * MediaWiki is the open source wiki technology underlying Wikipedia. This system is in wide use and offers numerous multimedia extensions as well as easy methods to tag and categorize complex content.


 * MediaWiki is a highly configurable, open source wiki application that powers large-scale wikis.


 * MediaWiki is not equipped with a graphic user interface, meaning the students have to be engaged in writing tags as well as content while working on the wiki.


 * MediaWiki is the software platform underlying Wikipedia; he chose that software because he's "amazed and fascinated" with both Wikipedia and the software underlying it, he said. He wanted to learn more about building wikis, and thought Lostpedia was a good place to start.

Moved above quotes to talk page from main article page. In process of additional research to find different sourced quotes. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 19:52, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Deletion discussion
This page was nominated for deletion. The result of this discussion was keep, following improvements to the page. BD2412 T 16:46, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Attempt at compromise
I've made a good faith attempt at compromise, and kept some out of the further reading section, and added others back.

This was removed:



Hopefully we can agree moderation is better and all come to an acceptable compromise. -- Cirt (talk) 17:55, 10 October 2013 (UTC)