Greetings,
Le samedi 29 janvier 2011 à 21:35 +1000, K. Peachey a écrit :
I must disagree with that, fragmenting discussions all over the place just makes things worse, It would be much better to keep these discussions centralized on somewhere like Meta or Mediawiki wiki (or possibly Strategy as well) instead of scattering them onto obscure wikis where they don't have as much viewage.
Yes, that was exactly the rationale behind the closing of the usability wiki. I can try to elaborate a bit, since concerns were raised.
The usability wiki was historically created as a work space for the Wikipedia usability initiative. The end of both usability grants provided an opportunity to revisit the decision to have a whole separate wiki.
Of course the Wikimedia Foundation is continuing to work on usability, and I don't think anyone would argue that "all usability problems are solved" :) Far from it. But usability is now an integral part of all WMF-supported engineering work and features.
As such, it makes sense to use mediawiki.org as the main workspace for Wikimedia developers, rather than to have a separate wiki. It might also help paid developers "mix" more with volunteers developers.
In a nutshell, the usability wiki is being replaced by the strategy wiki (for strategic product discussions, where Amir's and others' "dozen of ideas" will be most welcome) and mediawiki.org (for specific project management and implementation).
Hope that helps,