[teampractices] Why are WMF Department/team pages on mediawiki.org?

[Kevin Smith]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> On 05/22/2015 06:12 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
>
>> Currently, the Search & Discovery department is working on 3 projects:
>> Cirrus/text search, maps, and Wikidata Query Service. Of those, I think
>> only one is actually "mediawiki" work, which is part of what inspired my
>> question.
>>
>
> On what basis?  Maps and Wikidata are also technical projects, using
> PostgreSQL, OSM software, WikiBase, graph software, etc.  I don't see why
> they would be considered unrelated to MediaWiki software.
>

This could just be my inexperience here. To me, maps and wikidata are
clearly wikimedia software, but do not seem to be mediawiki software. They
are "related" to mediawiki, but I'm not sure what that should mean. It
sounds like you define mediawiki as being much broader than I was thinking.

Thanks for continuing the conversation.

Kevin
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