https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68818
Betacommand <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from Betacommand <[email protected]> --- As a labs user I find the current configuration a nightmare. We have stuff spread across multiple wikis, and even the wikitech wiki is a pain in the ass to find the needed documentation. Wikitech should revert to what it started out to be: a documentation wiki for production. labs and specifically tools labs need their own location for documentation. Forking namespaces is just begging for a headache/someone going postal. One of the easiest examples I can come up with is the issue of the revision table and the revision_userindex tables. On the toolserver there was clear documentation on both (the pros and cons of using either table) and an explanation of the rationale for such variants. There are other examples that I can provide, but those types of factoids and documentation do not belong on wikitech, however such blurbs along with other community based suggestions/docs make working with the non-production environment a lot easier. Throwing this into an existing wiki with production documentation makes the labs users frustrated. When I am looking for something I shouldn't have have to dig through a dozen pages relating to production configuration to find the one page about the tools/labs config. Often there are minor differences between the two setups so that a user tries to follow the guide for prod, only to fail because of something in labs is different. A wise man once told me about an ideal, once I learned it, it became a way of life. KISS Keep It Simple Stupid. We dont mix dewiki and enwiki. They have two separate communities, languages, and policies. Labs and prod are the same. If I remember a fairly notorious quote from the development/policy of labs is: that labs will never be production and will not be treated as such. Keep in mind that the goal of documentation is to make a subject easier to understand for someone learning it. Right now it takes someone to teach a person how to find the proper docs and differentiate between labs and prod documentation. I thouldnt be that complex of a process -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
