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

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Manuel Vacelet:
> 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 !)

That seems reasonable to me. I use email notification as a tool for
moderating one wiki that I run; but the Wikipedia has other methods
of doing that.

-- 
J.