On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Guillaume Paumier
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Re-trying to send this as the message was rejected several times and I
> have no idea why.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:53 PM
> Subject: Please read: Proposal to consolidate Mobile projects documentation
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Hi,
>
> A few weeks ago, Tomasz asked me to investigate the possibility of
> consolidating the Mobile projects documentation, currently split
> between meta and mediawiki.org.
>
> I've done some inventorizing and planning:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_communications/Mobile_documentation_consolidation
>
> What I'd like to ask you guys now is the following:
>
> * Do you see any reason not to move forward with this plan?
>

I've never been totally clear on the distinction between mediawiki.org and
meta.wikimedia.org, but I've operated under the assumption that the former
is for mediawiki-specific/related documentation (docs for extensions,
projects related to mediawiki, etc) and that the latter was for things
more... meta, like team-specific documentation. So, that's how I've tried
to approach creating mobile-related pages. Personally, I think there is
value in this divide - it provides a logical separation between teams and
projects, which I think is a Good Thing for an open source project - people
outside of the team can participate in the project, and people outside of
the team probably don't really care about team-specific documentation (eg
roles/responsibilities, meeting notes, etc). I understand that putting
documentation in ONE place can also be enormously beneficial from the
perspective of always knowing where to look; but we already won't have our
documentation in one place - there's also wikitech, and some stuff on
officewiki. So my preference would be to keep the divide of
project-specific stuff on mediawiki, team-specific stuff on meta, ultra
private stuff on office, architectural documentation on wikitech. If most
of you really think centralizing *all* mobile documentation (projects,
team, etc) in one place is a good idea, can someone try and convince me?

-- 
Arthur Richards
Software Engineer, Mobile
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IRC: awjr
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