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suggested wiki ideas
As suggested, just come from project|current (syntax?) issues on this page, and supporting the idea that there be more usage suggestions. If more experienced editors want to paste links to, say, half a dozen suggested usages, then I would be happy to draft an overview --User:Avaiki 20070410

add contact info
Add how to get contact mediawiki.org by email, to e.g. mention that mediawiki makes invalid xhtml: http://zh.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:%E6%96%B0%E9%97%BB%E6%8A%95%E7%A8%BF has one href= without quotes. Use href="...". --User:Jidanni 2006-07-27


 * Hello Jidanni, I've looked at it; you mean for example the following line at the bottom of this page:
 * 版权信息
 * I'll tell our devs about this case (see bug 6829). In general, please see Communication. Such things could be reported on MediaZilla/Bugzilla, or on IRC #wikimedia-tech, because it's not a MediaWiki specific problem, but a Wikimedia specific one afaik. Greetings -- :Bdk: 00:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Por favor, traduzcan este artículo al Español.
Por favor, traduzcan este artículo al Español, yo no hablo inglés. --Titogonzalez23 16:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Unclear/slang use
The first line of the first paragraph following the TOC currently reads: "MediaWiki.org, what is domain and site name at the same time, has only one topic: the homonymous wiki engine MediaWiki." The section between the first and second commas seems unecessary as well as rather cryptic. I'd remove it myself but the page is locked. -Jarsyl 09:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Done. --HappyDog 16:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Work in progress sentence
"All the content still is and, of course, will be work in progress." There should probaably be an "a" between "be" and "work". --Brian 08:51, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Not necessarily. "It is work in progress" or "It is a work in progress" - either is fine, and I personally prefer the former. --HappyDog 16:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Link correction
In "You can also install wiki software on your server;"(in the "what MediaWiki is not" section) the link should be changed to this wiki at Manual:Installation--Brian 03:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Blocking Policy
Where is the blocking policy? Every site needs one to let users know why admins can block people.(76.247.222.101 13:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC))
 * common sense is generally enough for small sites: you will be blocked if you disrupt the sites operation. A written policy is imho only needed if some major disagreement arises, and needs to be sorted out. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 10:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Q
Do we really want to use the word homonymous in this? --BozMo 09:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Protection
I realize this is a high-visibility page, but couldn't it be semi-protected instead of fully protected? —Emufarmers(T 08:59, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I've lowered the protection here because this is a high profile page, and therefore, people should be able to edit it in the spirit of the wiki. &mdash; Anonymous Dissident  Talk 09:14, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Who's in charge?
What I would like to see is a little something on who's in charge of the Wikimedia project. Who are the most active contributors? Who is in charge of scope / release calendar etc? Is there some sort of Mediawiki foundation? So far the only reference is that hosting for the website is donated by wikimedia, but there is no information whatsoever on who is responsible for this project. -- Michiel Beijen 10:24, 8 December 2008 (UTC)