https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68818
Bug ID: 68818
Summary: Investigate the creation of a wiki for the dev
community that is organizing around Labs
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Site requests
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A repeated request I have had from Labs users (especially Tool Labs) is to have
a wiki distinct from Wikitech where documentation and process can be organized.
As labs uptake has grown significantly, I'm tending to agree at this point.
The community is now solid enough to self-organize, and there are significant
downsides to mixing user documentation and operation documentations on
Wikitech:
* Search is difficult to make meaningful, as it generally cannot sort between
the two classes of overlapping subjects
* User rights on Wikitech are tied to technical rights with the infrastructure,
and are delicate to delegate to the community
* Namespaces are an issue, as the mainspace either becomes ambiguous or we need
to overload technical namespaces (Like Nova resources:)
The downsides are significant enough that members of the community have
discussed the possibility of setting up their own mediawiki instance to take
this role. I'd rather we did not have yet another divergent code base running
and depended upon by the dev community, so I think that a proper prod wiki
would be the correct solution.
The obvious wiki name would be labs.wikimedia.org but I am told that Ryan has
found issues with using that name in the past. I'll poke him and see if that
is still relevant as this would be the most logical name for it.
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