Project:MediaWiki is not Wikipedia/pt-br

O MediaWiki é utilizado para executar milhares de wikis em servidores em todo o mundo. Os 800 wikis da Wikimedia Foundation são membros importantes dessa família; e a Wikipédia em inglês, a maior wiki do mundo, é especialmente notável. But MediaWiki has a much wider userbase than those few projects. MediaWiki is used to run wikis whose goals are fundamentally different to the WMF wikis; to run wikis whose principles are morally objectionable, non-neutral or biased; to run wikis whose content is not open source; and thousands of wikis which are not free to edit. The MediaWiki developers make software changes to accommodate the needs of this entire family; they do not make judgements about which projects are or aren't worthy of support.

As such, the MediaWiki developers represent their own project with their own separate community, with their own goals and practices; and those goals and practices, while closely matching those of enwiki or whereverwiki, do not necessarily precisely align. There is nothing unrealistic, or wrong, with enwiki having goals which are very slightly different from those of the MediaWiki software as a whole. The WMF wikis have, and always will have, a particularly strong symbiotic relationship with the MediaWiki project, and often have the loudest voice in guiding MediaWiki development. But as a member of a Wikimedia project like Wikipedia, do not make the mistake of thinking that MediaWiki, or the MediaWiki developers, exist only to 'serve' your project, or to serve the WMF as a whole.

If you are a member of a Wikimedia project like Wikipedia, you should think of the developers in exactly the same way you would think of the Wikimedia Commons community. Most WMF wikis have a strong and healthy symbiotic relationship with Commons, and the Commons community generally does a fairly good job of balancing the needs of the many wikis it supports. But that relationship is usually not without its moments of tension, and sometimes wiki communities do not feel that they are getting everything they would like. But there is an instinctive recognition that those communities have no 'right' to expect any more cooperation than they get, because Commons is its own project with its own values, and that they will have to convince Commons that whatever it is that they want to do is in the best interests of *both* projects, in order to progress. If you treat the community of MediaWiki developers in the same way, you'll understand much better why things do not always appear to be going the 'right' way.

Faça

 * Seja proativo em deixar os desenvolvedores do MediaWiki saberem quando uma mudança teve um impacto sobre seu projeto wiki, positivo ou negativo


 * Sugira modificações que possam beneficiar a sua wiki.


 * Tenha em mente o quadro geral quando se discute mudanças.

Não faça

 * Nunca assuma que os desenvolvedores do MediaWiki tem o dever de consultar o seu projeto antes de fazer uma mudança, especialmente se o seu projeto é grande e importante apenas pra você.


 * Não assuma que os desenvolvedores do MediaWiki tem o dever de não fazer quaisquer mudanças que são prejudiciais para o seu projeto.


 * Não tente argumentar que a mudança deve ser feita porque há consenso do seu projeto para fazê-lo. Um consenso dos usuários do MediaWiki seria uma coisa realmente impressionante, uma vez que muitos deles poderiam não concordar com a hora do dia.