On 03.09.2010, 4:40 Roan wrote: >> * Shut down #wikimedia-dev (formerly #wikipedia_usability, kind of). >> The explicit purpose of the channel is to allow development discussion >> with less noise, but "noise" here means community involvement. In >> community development, you do get a lot more discussion, but that's >> not something you should try avoiding. In general, use existing >> discussion fora wherever possible, and if you do fragment them, make >> sure you don't have too much of a staff-volunteer split in which fora >> people use. > No, "noise" means bots and people trying to support people with > questions like "how do I disable anon reads on my wiki" as opposed to > developers (paid and unpaid alike) being engaged in a design > discussion. Maybe #wikimedia-dev should be renamed to #mediawiki-dev > to remove the suggestion of WMF-exclusivity, but I definitely see the > value of a channel dedicated to communication between developers with > support questions and bots kept out.
It should ultimately be decided whether MediaWiki is a software developed by an open community for everyone to use, or just a software that runs Wikipedia and is sporadically released to public only for lulz and Wikia? If it's the latter, such "noise" is indeed unwanted. If the former, this chit-chat is vital to being a part of the community. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
