On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 12 August 2014 02:39, svetlana
<svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote:
There needs to be a central place, like the Wikimedia blog, but dedicated
to tech things - actively announcing everything WM ENGINEERING are doing,
both in products and in core.
There is. It's called the monthly report. See here for July's for
example: *
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/July
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/July>*
Lack of information is not the problem, most of the times. In addition to
the WMF Engineering monthly reports, tech-curious wikimedians have:
* Tech News, shipped on a weekly basis, to the point, and not limited to
WMF-driven projects. A great team of volunteers lead by Odder and Guillaume
work persistently to fix this communication gap. Everybody: please
subscribe and help promoting this great resource.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech_News
* WMF Engineering short & mid term goals. Follow the links for status
reports, project plans, and direct feedback to the teams involved.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals
These resources are far from perfect, but they exist today. Ideas and help
to improve them are welcome.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil