[Wikimedia-l] Re: Legacy maintenance

2022-04-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, How do you compare functionality that is totally broken with "another tool". Or is your tool broken as well? As to Commons, we once had a Wikidata provided search tool that allowed search in any language. It was "adopted" by general search and is now no longer functional. In essence it provid

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Legacy maintenance

2022-04-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 21:08, Risker wrote: > there was mention of there being 50,000 "books" attached to English > Wikipedia. We > have individual images on Commons that probably have been used more often than > that Over a thousand times more than that, for several icon files: https://co

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Legacy maintenance

2022-04-19 Thread Risker
I've always considered technical debt as analogous to the ongoing work required to maintain a house. That is, it's usually not possible to bring everything up to best standards at once. Priorities have to be established. We've already seen what large technical areas will get focused attention fo

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Legacy maintenance

2022-04-19 Thread Benjamin Lees
I don't think "slower budget growth" means spending less. It just means not spending as much more. Anyway, you can spend more on one thing, such as technical debt, and less on other things. On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 8:21 AM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > In information I read the WMF intends to