Project:MediaWiki is not Wikipedia/es

MediaWiki se utiliza para gestionar wikis en servidores repartidos por todo el mundo. Los 800 wikis de la Fundación Wikimedia son miembros importantes de esa familia, y la Wikipedia en inglés, el wiki más grande del mundo, destaca particularmente. Pero MediaWiki tiene una base de usuarios que abarca mucho más que esos pocos proyectos. MediaWiki se utiliza para gestionar wikis cuyas metas son diametralmente distintas de las de los wikis de la WMF; wikis cuyos principios pueden ser moralmente cuestionables, no neutrales o imparciales; wikis cuyo contenido no es código abierto; y miles de wikis que no pueden editarse libremente. Los desarrolladores de MediaWiki hacen cambios en el software para acomodar las necesidades de todos; no hacen juicios de valor sobre qué proyectos merecen o no merecen apoyo.

Por tanto, los desarrolladores de MediaWiki representan su propio proyecto con su propia comunidad aparte, con sus propias metas y sus propias prácticas; y esas metas y prácticas, si bien pueden guardar ciertos paralelismos con las que use tal o cual wiki, no tienen por qué ir en la misma dirección. No tiene nada de malo que el wiki X tenga unas metas ligeramente distintas de las del software MediaWiki como tal. 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.

Do

 * Do be proactive in letting the MediaWiki developers know when a change has had an impact on your wiki project, either positive or negative


 * Do suggest changes which would benefit your wiki.


 * Do keep in mind the 'big picture' when discussing changes.

Don't

 * Don't ever assume that the MediaWiki developers have a duty to consult your project before making a change, especially if your project is large and self-important.


 * Don't assume that the MediaWiki developers have a duty not to make any changes which are detrimental to your project.


 * Don't try to argue that a change must be made because there is "consensus" from your project to do so. A consensus of MediaWiki users would be an impressive thing indeed, given that many of them couldn't agree on the time of day.