Erik Moeller wrote: >Having all technical contributors directed to wikitech.wikimedia.org >would address that - it would introduce them to a magical world of >dev-ops unicorns and PHP rainbows at the same time. And having >mediawiki.org more clearly dedicated to the product would allow it to >shine more brightly in its own sunflower-y colors.
:D >At the same time, the amount of wiki-ping-pong we're playing with >technically interested users could very well increase significantly as >a result. Right now, wikitech.wikimedia.org is relatively quiet, with >changes typically either being made by the Wikimedia ops team or by >Labs users. > >It simply stands to reason that if we distribute a lot of content from >a large wiki to a much smaller one, the number of times that you'll >have to go back and forth between the two to find what you're looking >for will increase. API docs? Over here. Status update? Over there. >Extension installation docs? Over here. Specs related to the same >extension? Over there. Ping, pong. Ping, pong. The divisions may seem >logical to us, but for the confused technical contributor, things >could easily get a lot worse. Yes, this. All of this. >If we do go forward with the migration to wikitech.wikimedia.org, I >would argue in favor of largely depleting mediawiki.org of content >except for clearly necessary end user documentation and support pages, >to minimize ping pong effects. Before too much gets moved or migrated (for a second time, in some cases, as Daniel F. points out... some of this content was already moved from Meta-Wiki to MediaWiki.org), I'd like to see more thought put into where everything should end up. Moves/migrations are disruptive and the resulting mess may be worse than keeping everything where it is for now. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
