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
