{"id":703,"date":"2004-11-30T23:44:41","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T03:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2004\/11\/30\/mediawiki-gets-reviewed\/"},"modified":"2004-11-30T23:44:41","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T03:44:41","slug":"mediawiki-gets-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/11\/30\/mediawiki-gets-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediawiki gets reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a680'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikimedia&#8217;s new biggest fan is named Sean Michael Kerner, and he&#8217;s<br \/>\npublished about it in NewsForge, an online OS journal.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/trends.newsforge.com\/trends\/04\/11\/22\/1750202.shtml?tid=137<\/p>\n<p>Kerner is dutifully critical, calling the documentation &#8220;somwhat<br \/>\n&#8216;dispersed&#8217;,&#8221; that tweaking skins &#8220;involves a bit of effort,&#8221; and wishes<br \/>\nfor an interface for automatic backups of the database, and &#8220;more granular<br \/>\ncontrol of users and permissions in one master dashboard&#8221;.&nbsp; But he ends<br \/>\nwith embarrassingly high praise:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Downloading, installing, and running MediaWiki for my own purposes has<br \/>\nonly enhanced my admiration for both the wiki and the WikiMedia<br \/>\nFoundation. It&#8217;s not only easy to use, it&#8217;s also easy to install and<br \/>\ndeploy. In the true spirit of the open source community MediaWiki is a<br \/>\nshining example of what open content collaboration is all about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess he read [[m:Things we wish people would say about us]] before<br \/>\nsitting down at his keyboard.&nbsp; Oh, he also offered to help with the<br \/>\ndocumentation.&nbsp; Whatta guy.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/trends.newsforge.com\/trends\/04\/11\/22\/1750202.shtml?tid=137'>Mediawiki gets reviewed &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikimedia&#8217;s new biggest fan is named Sean Michael Kerner, and he&#8217;s published about it in NewsForge, an online OS journal. http:\/\/trends.newsforge.com\/trends\/04\/11\/22\/1750202.shtml?tid=137 Kerner is dutifully critical, calling the documentation &#8220;somwhat &#8216;dispersed&#8217;,&#8221; that tweaking skins &#8220;involves a bit of effort,&#8221; and wishes for an interface for automatic backups of the database, and &#8220;more granular control of users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-bl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}