Indeed, in 2008/2009 there was a little wave of new wikis by Wikimedia Foundation. It seemed to me as if it was a prestige thing for the new WMF collaborators to get a wiki of their own. :-) We have Meta Wiki and similar general wikis already. A similar tendency we saw in some of the larger chapters. The last new content project of WMF was Wikiversity in 2006. I hope there will come something new in 2011... Kind regards Ziko
2011/1/29 Stephanie Daugherty <[email protected]>: > I would hope that in the future, the decision to make a separate wiki for > any "subproject" is not taken as lightly, given the concerns about > fragmenting discussions - it's much easier to track these things when they > are all in one place. :) > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Guillaume Paumier > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Le samedi 29 janvier 2011 à 21:35 +1000, K. Peachey a écrit : >> > >> > I must disagree with that, fragmenting discussions all over the place >> > just makes things worse, It would be much better to keep these >> > discussions centralized on somewhere like Meta or Mediawiki wiki (or >> > possibly Strategy as well) instead of scattering them onto obscure >> > wikis where they don't have as much viewage. >> >> Yes, that was exactly the rationale behind the closing of the usability >> wiki. I can try to elaborate a bit, since concerns were raised. >> >> The usability wiki was historically created as a work space for the >> Wikipedia usability initiative. The end of both usability grants >> provided an opportunity to revisit the decision to have a whole separate >> wiki. >> >> Of course the Wikimedia Foundation is continuing to work on usability, >> and I don't think anyone would argue that "all usability problems are >> solved" :) Far from it. But usability is now an integral part of all >> WMF-supported engineering work and features. >> >> As such, it makes sense to use mediawiki.org as the main workspace for >> Wikimedia developers, rather than to have a separate wiki. It might also >> help paid developers "mix" more with volunteers developers. >> >> In a nutshell, the usability wiki is being replaced by the strategy wiki >> (for strategic product discussions, where Amir's and others' "dozen of >> ideas" will be most welcome) and mediawiki.org (for specific project >> management and implementation). >> >> Hope that helps, >> >> -- >> Guillaume Paumier >> Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation >> Support free knowledge: http://donate.wikimedia.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > Faith is about what you really truly believe in, not about what you are > taught to believe. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk The Netherlands http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
