>Which community should be consulted on this technical decision? What if >enwiki wants prolog and dewiki wants lua and enwikitionary wants >javascript? Occasionally technical decisions have to be made by the >developers. The templating language is a technical decision. It's really >not something that is up for editor community debate. > >This decision was hashed out over months (really a couple of years if we >consider the original iteration of this idea) with the developer >community. If the editor community wishes to take part in these kinds of >decisions, they should join wikitech-l.
Most lay users likely won't be able to understand the discussions that take place on wikitech-l. Hell most lay users don't even know it exists. While I won't weigh in on whether or not the choice of Lua was our decision to make or not, I don't think that the argument that editors should join wikitech-l is a good one. Perhaps the ambassadors mailing list? But wikitech-l? No. I am curious though to see if we ever even mentioned this idea to the editors on at least enwiki though. I think such knowledge would greatly help everyone else here in evaluating whether or not we included the community enough on this decision. Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
