Thread:Project:Support desk/How to deal with greed-motivated documentation suppression on mediawiki.org?/reply (3)

I have never come across anyone that charges a fee for their contributions to this project...although very few portions of the project do receive funding from grants or are commissioned to develop something specific and complicated, but this is not very common. The community contributes to continue the development and forward progression of the project...most people here are "for the love of the game" players (including myself), not "show me the money" players. Please keep in mind...in most cases, this is a person's hobby, not their job. This is not a competition, it is a group effort..."collaboration" is the name of the game.

My proclamation of you being a jerk is because you are being a jerk. The MW/SMW community does not only revolve around your needs, this is because it is a community. If you have a requirement that is not fulfilled by an extension then write (and document) a new extension or add-on to an existing extension. There is a Developer hub just for learning how to do this. If the author does not happen to accept this patch/add-on then continue to patch it as new versions are released...no biggie.

Finally, I am sure if you did not act like such a jerk in the early stages of your online presence within the MW/SMW community other user, admins and developers would have assisted you with your questions with no resistance...I know this because it is how I learned.

--Dgennaro 15:50, 27 July 2011 (UTC)