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    Thanks Brion. This upgrade wouldn't have happened without your help. [[User:Juxo|Juxo]]
    Thanks Brion. This upgrade wouldn't have happened without your help. [[User:Juxo|Juxo]]


    :Moving to [[GetWiki]] is an upgrade.  Testing more damaged [[Mediawiki]] isn't, in the view of [[trolls]] anyway.  Among other things the [[interwiki link standard]] is retarded so everything must point back to Wikipedia.  This is wrong.  Is there a fix for this within [[MediaWiki]]?  And why isn't the proper [[standard wiki URI]] supported by default on a new MediaWiki install?  Is this another attempt to make it easy to refer to Wikipedia articles and hard to refer to others (by ensuring their URIs will be impossible to remember for the average user, and constantly shifting with each release of [[Mediawiki]]?).
    :Moving to [[GetWiki]] is an upgrade.  Testing more damaged [[Mediawiki]] isn't, in the view of [[trolls]] anyway.   
     
    :Among other things the [[interwiki link standard]] is retarded by failing to put language codes first, meaning [[wiki linking]] to "English (whatever)" will always go to [[Full English Wikipedia]].  This is wrong in every way - the language codes are [[ISO standard]]s and all they should mean is "in English, please".  Is there a fix for this within [[MediaWiki]]?   
     
    :And why isn't the proper [[standard wiki URI]] supported by default on a new MediaWiki install?  Is this another attempt to make it easy to refer to Wikipedia articles and hard to refer to others (by ensuring their URIs will be impossible to remember for the average user, and constantly shifting with each release of [[Mediawiki]] so only the Wikipedia ones are constant? [[Trolls]] suspect so. 
     
    :If we see the distributed [[GFDL text corpus]] properly supported, we might change our minds.  But for now it appears that [[Mediawiki]] is simply a sort of trap that [[GetWiki]] is trying to crawl out of.  And we want out of that trap.  We are necessarily [[multiple point of view]] at [[Consumerium]], and the ideology of [[neutral point of view]] simply doesn't and cannot apply, even if it makes sense, which it doesn't.  It is really all about their [[GodKing]] and what makes him personally comfortable or not, and the same is true for the features they implement, which seem to be going towards [[permission-based model]]s we don't need or want for [[Consumerium Services]].

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    Thanks Brion. This upgrade wouldn't have happened without your help. Juxo

    Moving to GetWiki is an upgrade. Testing more damaged Mediawiki isn't, in the view of trolls anyway.
    Among other things the interwiki link standard is retarded by failing to put language codes first, meaning wiki linking to "English (whatever)" will always go to Full English Wikipedia. This is wrong in every way - the language codes are ISO standards and all they should mean is "in English, please". Is there a fix for this within MediaWiki?
    And why isn't the proper standard wiki URI supported by default on a new MediaWiki install? Is this another attempt to make it easy to refer to Wikipedia articles and hard to refer to others (by ensuring their URIs will be impossible to remember for the average user, and constantly shifting with each release of Mediawiki so only the Wikipedia ones are constant? Trolls suspect so.
    If we see the distributed GFDL text corpus properly supported, we might change our minds. But for now it appears that Mediawiki is simply a sort of trap that GetWiki is trying to crawl out of. And we want out of that trap. We are necessarily multiple point of view at Consumerium, and the ideology of neutral point of view simply doesn't and cannot apply, even if it makes sense, which it doesn't. It is really all about their GodKing and what makes him personally comfortable or not, and the same is true for the features they implement, which seem to be going towards permission-based models we don't need or want for Consumerium Services.