MediaWiki for everything

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People say we shouldn't try to smush every feature possible into MediaWiki. That when we get to the point of integrating an email client (or some chat system, I guess, to modernise the cliche) then we'll have Gone Too Far. Not to mention that perhaps some people don't see a future for MediaWiki outside the Wikimedia movement (which I don't agree with at all).

But I don't know. I do still think that there's great power in the everything's-a-page model. It's what all the cool kids do with Obsidian or static Markdown-derived websites, and a wiki is just like that but packed up and run in one place—and old and uncool.

So I'll persist, I think, in adding things I want to MediaWiki. Maybe not a mail client, but definitely something to do with indieweb tools, possibly webmentions. But maybe a mail client.

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