Ryan Lane wrote:
I thought it was decided quite a long time ago that
meta was for
discussing the projects and not a place to keep random tech
documentation, or am I mistaken?
The issue, as I understand it, is that there's a good amount of
non-MediaWiki-related technical documentation that people are now trying
to shoehorn into
mediawiki.org, as there isn't a better place for it. A
sizable source of these pages is Wikimedia Foundation engineering-related
documentation, some of which clearly belong on
mediawiki.org, but some of
which clearly do not. Erik and others seem to believe that centralizing
everything at
mediawiki.org (and ignoring or expanding that wiki's stated
purpose) will be less confusing/better in the long run. I'm doubtful.
There was a proposal (in 2012, I think) to expand a "Wikitech" wiki, but
it seems to have died fairly quickly. I'm not sure why.
A generic developer hub would logically be placed at Meta-Wiki. However,
if the reality is that the developer hub is focused primarily at
MediaWiki, having a page at Meta-Wiki where every link points back to
mediawiki.org is a bit silly.
A lot of this could use more thought, but nobody really seems willing to
plan this out and then execute the plan.
MZMcBride