Drawbacks: People who maintain and use those metric pages don't want you to move them for a myriad of reasons. 
  • Many of us are confident that Meta is the Right(TM) place for them
  • Meta has become the place where we document studies.  Our core metrics should be accompanied by a study of their meaning and the robustness of their parameters.
  • Meta is where the research community of Wikimedia stuff generally hangs out.
  • It would cause disruption in our work to remove the metrics pages.  We'd need to write a bit to fix the broken links.
What are the benefits of temporarily moving all of this content to Wikitech?  You might end up moving it back after all.  Is it easier to edit the documentation on Wikitech than it is on Meta in some way?

-Aaron

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Strongly oppose moving the Research namespace hosted metrics documentation off Meta. It's s'posed to be broadly accessible. Wikitech is on few peoples' radar. Mediawiki.org is for software documentation. Meta is the central wiki for the movement (however imperfect). - J

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfaker@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I propose we move everything to wikitech now

I don't think that is feasible or reasonable for the documentation that is currently on Meta.  

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:
We have a documentation cleanup day coming up soon, and we've just got delete permissions so we can actually clean.  We've been moving everything Analytics-infrastructure related to wikitech and that's where we'd prefer to see everything.  The nuanced purpose of each wiki is great, but before we can get to that, we have to establish a trusted, complete, and discoverable source of documentation.  Then we can start catering to the audiences of each wiki.

I propose we move everything to wikitech now, and establish a single page on meta and mediawiki that point to the different main pages on wikitech.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Neil P. Quinn, 14/10/2015 02:30:
We currently have metrics documentation in two different places

 What sort of documentation do you have in mind? Meta has the definitions which WMF hopes to see used in other fields as well, while MediaWiki.org and wikitech have technical documentation about stats.wikimedia.org and other stuff produced by Analytics.

Nemo


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