> 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. >
Lay users don't write templates either. People who write templates are wizards. Templates make my eyes bleed and my mind hurt, and I've been developing for quite a long time. > 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. > I don't think the editor community has much reason to participate. The template creator community does. They are more than technical to understand things on wikitech-l. > 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. > The "community" is not a single thing. The community is made up of hundreds of sub-communities. If people are interested in technical decisions, they need to participate where technical decisions are made. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
