[Bf-docboard] Re: Bf-docboard Digest, Vol 22, Issue 2

[David Millet]

Ewout,

I naturally assumed you would disagree with me, because I was 
disagreeing with you :)  I didn't feel that the things you listed were 
really holding the writers back; but of course, if somebody wants to 
tackle the issues you listed, I'm fine with that.  I believe that other 
issues, mostly unrelated to MediaWiki, are holding documentation back.

I don't feel comfortable "forking" the MediaWiki engine, and luckily, I 
don't believe any of the issues you listed will require a fork of the 
MediaWiki engine.  Luckily, everything you listed should be doable 
through plugins.  We should be able to get the extra 
features/functionality without modifying the core, thus allowing to 
continue to update the engine.  The plugin API is probably very stable 
at this point, so whatever plugins we write will hopefully not be broken 
with further wiki engine updates.

spiderworm