Greetings,
As most of you know, we document WMF engineering activities on
mediawiki.org using "activity pages", which is just a fancy word for
pages that have an infobox. We can then list the activities in many
places, like the Wikimedia Engineering portal (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering ) and the status
dashboard (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Dashboard
)
Most of the activities are about a particular project, like
"Phabricator migration" or "Flow". Multimedia is a bit awkward
because
it's about a team rather than the projects you guys work on.
It might have made sense previously (for example if the team was
touching a lot of different pieces of Multimedia) but my understanding
from the Wikimania workshops is that the Multimedia team plans to
mostly focus on two main projects this fiscal year: UploadWizard and
Structured Data.
Therefore, I'd like to recommend that we make those two projects
actual "activities", with a dedicated infobox and status updates.
Other, smaller multimedia-related bits like MediaViewer could still be
in the catch-all "Multimedia" activity.
This wouldn't change anything for most of you; the only visible
difference would be that you would report on UploadWizard and
Structured Data on a different page. It would be more consistent with
the rest of WMF engineering, and it would be easier for the rest of
the community to follow your work on each project.
Unless there are strong objections to this proposal, I'm happy to add
the infoboxes myself, but I wanted to ask here first :) Let me know if
you have any questions.
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation