On 05/22/2015 04:36 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
For me, mostly due to keeping things in one[0] place. It's easier
mentally to keep team pages and project pages (where project pages are
more sensibly on mw.org) together since our teams are heavily
technical/based on MediaWiki development.
Yes, I
On 05/22/2015 06:12 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
Thanks for the context!
S: Yes, my first sentence was meant to be TPG-specific. I lost that in
editing right before I hit send.
Restricted access on mwfoundation is a pretty good argument for not
going there.
Having one place to go sounds good in
cc'ing guillom who AIUI set up the Wikimedia engineering reporting.
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Kevin Smith ksm...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Naively, it seems like our home page should be on wikimediafoundation.org
rather than mediawiki.org.
You're only talking about Team Practices Group
quote name=Kevin Smith date=2015-05-21 time=15:14:25 -0700
Naively, it seems like our home page should be on wikimediafoundation.org
rather than mediawiki.org.
The org-specific pages are on wikimediafoundation (staff pages, job
postings etc).
For engineering departments, it is less clear, but
On 22 May 2015 at 17:12, Kevin Smith ksm...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Restricted access on mwfoundation is a pretty good argument for not going
there.
This sort of term ('mwfoundation') is part of the problem. There are
distinctions between MediaWiki (the generic wiki software), Wikimedia
(largest
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi,
[I see that Kevin has responded to say that his original question was about
the Team Practices pages specifically, but since the scope of this thread
has
expanded beyond that, and since I'm almost done
Thank you for this email, Kevin. This is something that's bugged me for
several years as a mediawiki.org administrator - are these pages actually
within the site scope
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:About#What_MediaWiki.org_is? (I
don't think I've ever deleted a page for it, but they don't
Naively, it seems like our home page should be on wikimediafoundation.org
rather than mediawiki.org.
For engineering departments, it is less clear, but since the entire
department structure is an artifact of the WMF, and not of the mediawiki
software, my gut reaction would be the same.
Technical
A few thoughts...
Putting anything on wikimediafoundation.org
a) greatly limits the number of people who can edit/update the pages at all
(IIRC not all staff have had accounts created at that wiki. And non-staff
have to request an account via meta
