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On Mon, 27 Jul 2020, 11:29 am Andre Klapper, <[email protected]> wrote: > <tl;dr>: Make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by end of > August. See and comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010 > > > Hi everyone, > > In January 2018, an experimental instance of the Q&A platform > "Discourse" was set up for developer support at > https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org . > See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180854 . > > Since its launch, the usage of this instance has declined: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010#6270883 > On average, there are two users who are engaged daily. > > Other support venues which exist in parallel are much more active, such > as IRC, mailing lists, [[mw:Project:Support_desk]], [[meta:Tech]], > local technical village pumps, newsletters, Zulip for outreach > programs, or other third-party sites such as mwusers.org, > StackExchange.com, or Reddit. > > Discontinuing the least frequented venue (which unfortunately is > Discourse though it seems to be a great communication platform) would > keep us from further fragmenting our conversations and efforts. > > Planning, implementing, establishing and running a centralized > Wikimedia developer support venue on production infrastructure > (puppetization, data backups, uptime, etc) would require significant > technical and "social" capacity. If Discourse was to be further > evaluated, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155678 and its subtasks > list part of the remaining needed work. > > I propose to make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by the end > of August 2020. > > Please comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010 if you have > thoughts to share instead of replying to this message. > Because keeping conversations in one place. ;) > > Thanks a lot! > andre > > -- > Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
