Rob Lanphier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >> (I >> don't completely understand why Wikimedia needs two blogs, but that's a >> matter for a different day.) > > It probably doesn't hurt to have a place for us to nerd out and not > have to worry about writing for a general audience. It seems that > occasionally having some sort of "best of the techblog"-type summary > posting on the main blog would be a good thing to do, but that means > someone would have to decide what "best" is, and then write about it, > so it's probably not something that will happen soon.
In order to avoid thread drift, I've replied to this here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=2139159 I hope you'll join the conversation there. It would probably also be prudent to poke Jay about this as well. >> There's been no activity on that page since September 23 (a few hours after >> this thread was started). It's nearly October 1. To me, that indicates a >> problem. > > Funny story there. Most of us EPMs here have been talking daily about > wanting to make sure we have some prose in place before our drafting > session tomorrow, the same way people talk about losing weight or > cleaning out their garage. That's the bad news. The good news is > that we have scheduled a drafting session tomorrow that we'll be > hammering out a draft. When writing on a wiki, you would (or should, I guess) always link acronyms and initialisms. In a mailing list post, this isn't possible, so it's really best to write out the full word. I never remember what "EPM" stands for. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EPM or http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EPM or http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/EPM ... ought to be a redirect to a description of what an EPM is, who fills these roles, etc. >> Wikimedia has been having weekly (or fortnightly) status meetings about most >> of the items you listed on MediaWiki.org, but the notes are being held on >> Wikimedia's installation of EtherPad. Either document this EtherPad >> installation (I'm not even sure if the URL is supposed to be public, so I'll >> omit it here) or stop using it and post all of the notes directly on >> MediaWiki.org. These notes in EtherPad are (by far) the most up-to-date and >> helpful pages for tracking the status of projects that I've seen, but I >> doubt more than a dozen people outside of Wikimedia Foundation staff have >> any idea they exist. Though, perhaps a bit ironically, I haven't seen (m)any >> ops-related notes on EtherPad, as far as I remember, so that still might be >> an area in which only one or two people can give an accurate update. > > I think our dream tool would be EtherPad realtime capabilities built > into MediaWiki. I have a lot of dreams as well. I think it makes a lot more sense to work within the current reality, though. :-) I think some of the EtherPad notes were transferred to MediaWiki.org today. This is definitely a step in the right direction. If there's a way to ensure that this happens regularly, that would be awesome. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
