Thread:Talk:Release Management RFP/NicheWork and Hallo Welt!/Release Management and Visual Editor/reply (5)

Do Wikia and WikiHow fit the definition of "huge corporations that can manage"? They are certainly the two largest non-WMF installations that I know of.

WikiHow hasn't yet upgraded beyond 1.12. Wikia did recently upgrade to 1.19.

They both have a significant base of code to support and it sounds like MW2.0 as you've envisioned it is essentially a fork that will be incompatible with anything done for MW1.x.

As a result, I don't think porting Parsoid to PHP would be a dead end. There is a huge installed base of wikis that could use such a thing.

One of my clients is a large multinational with significant IT resources. However, they were still running MW 1.11 until recently when I upgraded them to 1.19. I think most uses "in the wild" are more like that than someone who is ready now to upgrade to whatever the next new thing is.

They'd be happy to have a visual editor that works in MW 1.x (and that is what VisualEditor offers) instead of the something makes their current modifications unusable.