Talk:Alternate wiki-implementations
this is now complete enough to let the MediaWiki developers hack on it and add all the wonderful things they HAVE done (not "WILL" do), and also fair enough to invite TikiWiki and MoinMoin zealots here to hack up the page too - remember that since this we are using MediaWiki, we're strongly biased to it, and so, we should expect to have to do much more work to get anyone to bother explaining why we should drop it.
- Why don't we just require everyone to deliever their contributions as PowerPoint slide shows?
- That evens out the presentation advantage. But it will ensure we all end up buying Microsoft. LOL. How about requiring XML based presentations instead?
- Just invite everyone to edit this page. But like I say it will be hard to convince MoinMoin or TikiWiki zealots to come here and submit their work to a MediaWiki-based forum. Also it would be good to know what technology that http://nationmaster.com is using - they seem to be doing a really good job of compiling public data.
It would be interesting to compare how each of these development processes handles the styles of capital it comes into touch with. Not listening to end user feedback for instance would seem to stress out individual capital more, and rely too much on social capital (trust of users by developers) to get the information where it needs to go. All very important.
"Pear" is not a "requirement", it is a technology. And it's being replaced by better technologies.