On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:15 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I'd add "general direction of centralizing everything under a single > Wikimedia Foundation is a bad idea" as a permanent blocker.
As others have noted, there's a difference between offering data (which we do - we've spent a lot of time, money and effort to ensure that stuff like dumps.wikimedia.org works reliably even at enwiki scale) and providing a working environment for the dev community. Having a primary working environment like Labs makes sense in much the same way that it makes sense to have a primary multimedia repository like Commons (and Wikidata, and in future probably a gadget repository, a Lua script repository, etc.). It enables community network effects and economies of scale that can't easily be replicated and reduces wasteful duplication of effort. That said, I'd love to make more real-time data feeds available for third parties in general. The analytics team is currently looking into offering a sensible alternative to the IRC feed for edit metadata, for example. Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
