Consumerium development 20 years on: Difference between revisions

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[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|thumb|right|150px|[[mw:MediaWiki]] software has been developed very actively for over 20 yrs and it is vastly more powerful in its capabilities now. It's capabilities can be expanded with [[MediaWiki/extensions]], but one needs to choose carefully and wisely as some permutations of extensions do not work together and some extensions may be difficult to remove after having been installed.]]
[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|thumb|right|150px|[[mw:MediaWiki]] software has been developed very actively for over 20 yrs and it is vastly more powerful in its capabilities now. It's capabilities can be expanded with [[MediaWiki/extensions]], but one needs to choose carefully and wisely as some permutations of extensions do not work together and some extensions may be difficult to remove after having been installed.]]
{{Q|It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.|[[w:Søren Kierkegaard]]<ref>[[wikiquote:Søren Kierkegaard#The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s]] (1844)</ref>}}


Many of the planned [[features]] have already been implemented as services by both profit-maximizing and non-profit-seeking entities during these past 20 years.
Many of the planned [[features]] have already been implemented as services by both profit-maximizing and non-profit-seeking entities during these past 20 years.
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'''Needs freshening up'''
'''Needs freshening up'''
* The [[features]] should be updated to as of now and to include what existing services implement some feature, or even better, what friendly data source provides the data with a licensing setup that we can work with.
* The [[features]] should be updated to as of now and to include what existing services implement some feature, or even better, what friendly data source provides the data with a licensing setup that we can work with.
* The [[MediaWiki/extensions]] was an attempt at going through all the extensions and scribing up the potential ones. I did this in 2012, so 10 yrs ago and revisiting these extensions would be useful and educating
* The [[MediaWiki/extensions]] was an attempt at going through all the extensions and scribing up the potential ones. I did this in 2012, so 10 yrs ago and revisiting these extensions would be useful and educating.
 
'''THE CURRENT STATE'''
 
Uncontested facts: Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}. 
 
The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits, but would be structured differently if all the technological means and savoir faire of now would have been available when we started out with a handful of friends.
 
There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]] but through [[mw:Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons]] many more pictures are available to be used.
 
There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users, which is bit of a problem, because over 64k of those are bot registered accounts from back in the day
 
There are {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} admins. You know who you are.


Today the wiki is running on [[mw:MediaWiki]] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.
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The top 20 articles in the main namespace measured by the number of visits for the year 2022 have been the following:  
The top 20 articles in the main namespace measured by the number of visits for the year 2022 have been the following:  
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'''HISTORY'''
'''HISTORY'''
{{Q|It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.|[[w:Søren Kierkegaard]]<ref>[[wikiquote:Søren Kierkegaard#The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s]] (1844)</ref>}}


See [[Timeline of Consumerium]] for info on what has happened during these years that has been significant for the development effort.
See [[Timeline of Consumerium]] for info on what has happened during these years that has been significant for the development effort.
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[[User:Jukeboksi/log/All Consumerium logs in one]] may also be useful viewing, at least for me, the [[Lowest Troll]]
[[User:Jukeboksi/log/All Consumerium logs in one]] may also be useful viewing, at least for me, the [[Lowest Troll]]
'''THE CURRENT STATE'''
Uncontested facts: Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}. 
The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits, but would be structured differently if all the technological means and savoir faire of now would have been available when we started out with a handful of friends.
There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]] but through [[mw:Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons]] many more pictures are available to be used.
There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users, which is bit of a problem, because over 64k of those are bot registered accounts from back in the day
There are {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} admins. You know who you are.
Today the wiki is running on [[mw:MediaWiki]] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.


The Consumerium [[development wiki]] turned 20 on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.<ref group="misc">UNIX timestamp for 20 yrs party is 1677199920</ref> and the [[motivation]] for Consumerium remained the same.
The Consumerium [[development wiki]] turned 20 on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.<ref group="misc">UNIX timestamp for 20 yrs party is 1677199920</ref> and the [[motivation]] for Consumerium remained the same.