> Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 08:23:36 +0000 (UTC) > From: Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Focus on sister projects > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > >> MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ryan Kaldari wrote: > >> Yeah, the local CSS/JS cruft is definitely a problem. I've tried doing > >> clean-up on a few wikis, but I usually just get chewed out by the local > >> admins for not discussing every change in detail (which obviously > >> doesn't scale for fixing 200+ wikis). I would love to hear ideas for how > >> to address this problem. > > > > This caught my eye as Wikimedia has far more than 200 wikis. There seems to > > be a shift happening within the Wikimedia Foundation. The sister projects > > have routinely been ignored in the past, but things seem to be going further > > lately.... > > The good thing about forgotten/abandoned/unloved/etc. projects is that > they probably don't have lots of cruft accumulated in the global CSS/JS > files (as they require quite lively tech-savvy community to maintain them). > > So those sites will not probably require any changes and will survive > HTML5 migration without any problems. > > //Marcin
On the contrary, I find the small language wiki projects to be in much worse shape. Often they have syntax errors in their js files, breaking _all_ js. Other times they have stuff that is just plain wrong. (Like anyone remember the toolserver tool to gather stats before stuff was available at http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ - where projects would put js that pinged the toolserver once every 100 hits. That code is still in many small projects [usually with the project code field set to the wrong project]. I've even seen that code in wikis that were created after said toolserver tool stopped working). On the other hand they probably won't complain, as the js is already fairly broken ;) -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
