On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03.09.2010, 4:40 Roan wrote: > >>> * Shut down #wikimedia-dev (formerly #wikipedia_usability, kind of). >>> The explicit purpose of the channel is to allow development discussion >>> with less noise, but "noise" here means community involvement. In >>> community development, you do get a lot more discussion, but that's >>> not something you should try avoiding. In general, use existing >>> discussion fora wherever possible, and if you do fragment them, make >>> sure you don't have too much of a staff-volunteer split in which fora >>> people use. >> No, "noise" means bots and people trying to support people with >> questions like "how do I disable anon reads on my wiki" as opposed to >> developers (paid and unpaid alike) being engaged in a design >> discussion. Maybe #wikimedia-dev should be renamed to #mediawiki-dev >> to remove the suggestion of WMF-exclusivity, but I definitely see the >> value of a channel dedicated to communication between developers with >> support questions and bots kept out. >
Have to say this is the first I've heard of this channel existing. Yay for communication. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
