> > I think having documentation in more than one place is an awful experience > for newcomers.
Which newcomers are you referring to? Newcomers to the WMF engineering staff or newcomers to research/analytics of Wikimedia projects? It's OK to not understand the different purposes of our Wikis right away, but I don't think that is a good reason to undermine their purposes. I certainly don't see why wikitech is a desirable hub for this kind of information. From my point of view Wikitech is the *worst* potential hub of information that is not specific to engineering. What, exactly, is the trouble with having metrics documentation on Meta? How would moving *some of the the documentation* to wikitech help that? (Because you're not going to move research project documentation without even stronger disagreement from the locals.) -Aaron On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Dan Andreescu <[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 >> > > I respect the fact that these kinds of distinctions make sense to people > who are already familiar with the movement and research / analytics. But > to someone relatively new, and to me for the first year at the foundation, > those distinctions made zero sense. > > I'm not saying it's easy, but I think having documentation in more than > one place is an awful experience for newcomers. We'll continue to move > things to wikitech and leave nice high level landing pages on the other > wikis. Others are welcome to act differently if they so see fit. I know a > lot of research stuff is on meta, so maybe in your case it makes sense to > standardize on meta and point to it from the other wikis. > > You're of course welcome to disagree with me but I'd suggest first trying > to come up with examples of newcomers who understand the purpose of our > different wikis perfectly right away. > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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