Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorting out MediaWiki @ social media
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: * @wikimediatech is fine as a bot driven account. As soon as I find out who has access to that account I will propose a rename to something 'mediawiki' for naming consistency (privately, this is like discussing domain names). Followers will be unaffected. This shouldn't be renamed imho, since it's not about MediaWiki--it's about Wikimedia tech generally. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorting out MediaWiki @ social media
On 12/18/2012 11:21 AM, Chad wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: * @wikimediatech is fine as a bot driven account. As soon as I find out who has access to that account I will propose a rename to something 'mediawiki' for naming consistency (privately, this is like discussing domain names). Followers will be unaffected. This shouldn't be renamed imho, since it's not about MediaWiki--it's about Wikimedia tech generally. We agree on the meaning. Let's try to agree on the words. This is a side effect of this ambiguous use of MediaWiki / Wikimedia-tech that we haven't resolved yet. MediaWiki as in MediaWiki project, MediaWiki community, MediaWiki groups... Not just MediaWiki Core. For outsiders, we can be found at mediawiki.org and therefore it's easy to identify us as MediaWiki. It's also easy to explain that MediaWiki powers Wikipedia. But explaining Wikimedia is more complex, and then making a cut to isolate Wikimedia tech is just too much for the casual reader. Hence the idea of simplifying with MediaWiki as a general term. For instance, the proposal says: Description: News from the MediaWiki project. Powering Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorting out MediaWiki @ social media
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 12/18/2012 11:21 AM, Chad wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: * @wikimediatech is fine as a bot driven account. As soon as I find out who has access to that account I will propose a rename to something 'mediawiki' for naming consistency (privately, this is like discussing domain names). Followers will be unaffected. This shouldn't be renamed imho, since it's not about MediaWiki--it's about Wikimedia tech generally. We agree on the meaning. Let's try to agree on the words. This is a side effect of this ambiguous use of MediaWiki / Wikimedia-tech that we haven't resolved yet. MediaWiki as in MediaWiki project, MediaWiki community, MediaWiki groups... Not just MediaWiki Core. For outsiders, we can be found at mediawiki.org and therefore it's easy to identify us as MediaWiki. It's also easy to explain that MediaWiki powers Wikipedia. But explaining Wikimedia is more complex, and then making a cut to isolate Wikimedia tech is just too much for the casual reader. Hence the idea of simplifying with MediaWiki as a general term. For instance, the proposal says: Description: News from the MediaWiki project. Powering Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement. But I don't think that description is accurate at all. The MediaWiki project refers to MediaWiki--not other WMF sites. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorting out MediaWiki @ social media
On 12/18/2012 11:56 AM, Chad wrote: But I don't think that description is accurate at all. The MediaWiki project refers to MediaWiki--not other WMF sites. Ok, if @wikimediatech is only distributing updates about http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ then you are right and let's just leave the username as it is. Still, can the description be perhaps improved? Wikimedia Tech Team (identi.ca) or Wikimedia Tech Staff (Twitter) can be confused by outsiders as a place to know about all tech related activities. I wonder how many of the 80 / 535 followers (our highest numbers in any tech related account) fell in this confusion. What about something more descriptive? Wikimedia technical infrastructure updates. Pointing to the MediaWiki account from the description would be also useful. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
