Thread:Project talk:WikiProject Extensions/Extension maintenance/reply (4)

By "the development of tools, like extensions, used by other free-content wiki participating in the broader MediaWiki community of projects that 'empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain'" would that not be Wikipedia or other *very similar in objectives* projects (such as Enciclopédia Libre in Seville)?

I can't see most of the fancruft on Wikia being "educational content" or that site's mission to take other people's content and bury it under ever-increasing quantities of advertising to be a charitable endeavour. Wikia's investors might love to see an extension invented that makes the site look exactly like Facebook... but what would that have to do with collecting and developing educational content of any kind?

Likewise, would Uncyclopedia and extension:RandomSelection qualify? They're amusing, but I have the sneaking suspicion that their only enduring educational accomplishment is to lower the collective IQ of Brazil at least two or three points since the first Desciclopédia article was written in 2005, with similar but lesser results in other countries where various languages of Uncyclopedia operate.

If this were something like Extension:Cite or Extension:Math, which is used in the encyclopaedia, sure - treat them as if they were core code. The same would not apply, though, to the seemingly-endless efforts to keep inventing and reinventing more extensions to turn a wiki into an endless collection of links to YouTube (for which we have too many extensions already).