*"We need to write a *bot* to fix broken links."

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Drawbacks: People who maintain and use those metric pages don't want you
> to move them for a myriad of reasons.
>
>    - Many of us are confident that Meta is the Right(TM) place for them
>    - Meta has become the place where we document studies.  Our core
>    metrics should be accompanied by a study of their meaning and the
>    robustness of their parameters.
>    - Meta is where the research community of Wikimedia stuff generally
>    hangs out.
>    - It would cause disruption in our work to remove the metrics pages.
>    We'd need to write a bit to fix the broken links.
>
> What are the benefits of temporarily moving all of this content to
> Wikitech?  You might end up moving it back after all.  Is it easier to edit
> the documentation on Wikitech than it is on Meta in some way?
>
> -Aaron
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Strongly oppose moving the Research namespace hosted metrics
>> documentation off Meta. It's s'posed to be broadly accessible. Wikitech is
>> on few peoples' radar. Mediawiki.org is for software documentation. Meta is
>> the central wiki for the movement (however imperfect). - J
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I propose we move everything to wikitech now
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think that is feasible or reasonable for the documentation that
>>> is currently on Meta.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have a documentation cleanup day coming up soon, and we've just got
>>>> delete permissions so we can actually clean.  We've been moving everything
>>>> Analytics-infrastructure related to wikitech and that's where we'd prefer
>>>> to see everything.  The nuanced purpose of each wiki is great, but before
>>>> we can get to that, we have to establish a trusted, complete, and
>>>> discoverable source of documentation.  Then we can start catering to the
>>>> audiences of each wiki.
>>>>
>>>> I propose we move everything to wikitech now, and establish a single
>>>> page on meta and mediawiki that point to the different main pages on
>>>> wikitech.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Neil P. Quinn, 14/10/2015 02:30:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We currently have metrics documentation in two different places
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What sort of documentation do you have in mind? Meta has the
>>>>> definitions which WMF hopes to see used in other fields as well, while
>>>>> MediaWiki.org and wikitech have technical documentation about
>>>>> stats.wikimedia.org and other stuff produced by Analytics.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nemo
>>>>>
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