On 05/26/2015 12:44 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
This could just be my inexperience here. To me, maps and wikidata are clearly wikimedia software, but do not seem to be mediawiki software. They are "related" to mediawiki, but I'm not sure what that should mean. It sounds like you define mediawiki as being much broader than I was thinking.
Technically, the only thing that actually is MediaWiki is MediaWiki core, i.e. the wiki engine.
Everything else (CirrusSearch, VisualEditor, WikiBase/Wikidata, Maps, Flow, Gather, etc.) is software that integrates (or will, in the case of Maps) to MediaWiki in some way (tightly or loosely).
For example, the Maps team will presumably develop an extension that displays maps on MediaWiki pages (among other technical work). Wikidata.org is a MediaWiki site.
I think all of this belongs on MediaWiki.org and/or Wikitech. The distinction between those two is a little more complicated. A rule of thumb is that if it's documenting something in Puppet, it should go on Wikitech, otherwise it should go in MediaWiki.org.
While looking at this, I noticed that https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:About said, "MediaWiki.org is solely for the documentation of the MediaWiki software." and "MediaWiki.org has only one topic: the wiki engine MediaWiki." Taken literally, this excludes extensions like CirrusSearch, Flow, etc. However, in reality these types of things have been here as long as I can remember (and probably longer). I've boldly updated those docs.
Thanks for continuing the conversation.
Thank you as well for raising this. I hope this helps clarify. Matt _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
