Re: [Phpwiki-talk] My talk with Jimmy Wales

[Manuel V. <man...@gm...>]

2005/9/26, Reini Urban <ru...@x-...>:
> Joel Uckelman schrieb:
> > Thus spake Reini Urban:
> > [snip]
> >>I told him why not to add PageChangeNotifications per email.
> >>mediawiki doesn't support that yet, and there exists no plugin yet.
> >>Just a notification to some IRC channel as I remember.
> >
> > I'm curious: Why not? That's a feature we have that I've always found u=
seful.
>
> I don't know exactly. Maybe because they have too less developer
> manpower, considering that mediawiki is a one man show only and
> brian is not accepting a lot.

It might be possible than wikipedia traffic is too important. With
such plugin, there will be a lots of email send and since mediawiki
developments are guided by wikipedia needs ... (It looks like a troll,
it smell like a troll but this is not !)