On 02/27/2013 10:54 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
On 02/27/2013 09:05 AM, Brian Wolff wrote:
What's #wikimedia-tech used for now a days? From what I gather it is used
for general technical help on wikimedia projects, which sounds kind of in
the same direction as what you are suggesting (disclaimer: I don't
generally idle/join that channel, so dont really know)
I interpret #wikimedia-tech as intended for tech support on WMF wikis.
I don't know if that's how it's predominantly used. The current
channels are definitely a bit confusing.
The good side of this is perhaps that we can define them for what they
are good.
#mediawiki is, in practice, where a lot of stuff happens - well beyond
strict MediaWiki core development. Good to find people with developer
knowledge on many topics (both MediaWiki and Wikimedia tech) at any
time. In fact not so good for 3rd party newbie users/admins looking for
help because it is really noisy with people and bots.
#wikimedia-tech is, in practice, where you get a good balance between
Wikimedia tech specific discussion and support.
#wikimedia-dev is nowadays... what? People active there usually can be
found in the previous channels and would perhaps be open to move more to
these two in exchange of having to follow an extra channel. I'm not sure
myself how useful / productive is to have a WMF centric public IRC channel.
I personally don't see a strong need to change this, but if someone
(like the op of this thread) asks then I think it is good to look at
#mediawiki and #wikimedia-tech as default destinations instead of
promoting (or creating!) more semi-redundant ones.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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