Hi, about Wikitech / mediawiki.org check
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_communications/Dev_wiki_consolidation
On 04/03/2013 12:30 AM, Ori Livneh wrote:
That seems wrong. Of the two, MediaWiki.org is clearly the more
successful wiki.
Sure, but following this argument we could just have dev.wikipedia.org,
right?
The point is that we need a good ground to build an infrastructure for
technical contributors, and Wikitech provides this ground. It is not
such a radical step, actually. Today we are asking contributors to
* Join [email protected]
* File bugs at bugzilla.wikimedia.org
* Send patches to gerrit.wikimedia.org
* ... after getting developer access at wikitech.wikimedia.org
Moving / building there the resources related to contributors makes sense.
I think the simplest way to draw the line between Wikitech and
mediawiki.org is to do it between users and contributors. The definition
of "user" includes
* Editors of a generic MediaWiki.
* Sysadmins installing MediaWiki.
* Developers using the MediaWiki API.
I believe this causes no harm to mediawiki.org, cleaning it from
Wikimedia centric content and allowing it a lot more freedom and focus
about using MediaWiki and related technologies available to anybody.
mediawiki.org keeps being the place to download software, learn and get
support. None of these activities requires to put your feet in any
Wikitech* or Wikimedia* domain.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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