[wp-docs] Codex move complete, next steps?

[Michael E. Hancock]

From: "Matt Mullenweg" <m at mullenweg.com>
> Michael E. Hancock wrote:
> > +1 for sticking with MediaWiki.
> > Find someone you trust to do the upgrade, and also ask them to manage
future
> > upgrades.  Hopefully upgrading will solve the mysterious problems like
> > Popularpages just disappearing.  Wonder if RecentChanges only reporting
so
> > many days is part of that?
>
> What is it about Mediawiki that you like?

Nothing but the obvious.  Good collaboration tool.  History of edits. Free.
Wiki markup.  Talk Pages.  It's documented.  Lots of people know how to use
it.  It works.

Here's some 'wishes' I detailed when the blicki subject was broached in
February  http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH/Blicki_Features

> I was looking over the new features in new versions of Mediawiki, I
> couldn't find anything that would be applicable to us.
>
> Is there anything in particular you want in a newer version?

>From experience on another MediaWiki site at 1.6.8 (they don't want to bite
the PHP5 bullet either) I like:
Emailing users lost passwords
E-mail on page changes
E-mail when user talk page is changed
E-mail from other users
Alphabetized SpecialPages
Showing the diff during a current edit session

MichaelH