This is obvious in many cases - MediaWiki.org has the manual... but then Meta has the extensions? ...or they're being moved to the former. But the latter also has "manual"-like elements. Where are you actually *meant* to document proposals? ...for new wikis on Meta, for software upgrades on MediaWiki, or just put it all on BugZilla? And... I'm confused.
Just, what are the actual distinct purposes of the two wikis? What kind of information should always go on one and never the other? Thanks.
Hi! Meta-Wiki is (in theory, at least) for coördination between the different Wikimedia projects. So this is where discussions for new wikis, etc, should go. The MediaWiki wiki, on the other hand, is mainly for documentation of the MediaWiki software and its extensions, while for bug reports and feature requests, you should use BugZilla (a.k.a. MediaZilla, to add to the confusion).
On 2/13/07, Virgil Ierubino virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote:
This is obvious in many cases - MediaWiki.org has the manual... but then Meta has the extensions? ...or they're being moved to the former. But the latter also has "manual"-like elements. Where are you actually *meant* to document proposals? ...for new wikis on Meta, for software upgrades on MediaWiki, or just put it all on BugZilla? And... I'm confused.
Just, what are the actual distinct purposes of the two wikis? What kind of information should always go on one and never the other? Thanks. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
On 13/02/07, Virgil Ierubino virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote:
This is obvious in many cases - MediaWiki.org has the manual... but then Meta has the extensions? ...or they're being moved to the former. But the latter also has "manual"-like elements. Where are you actually *meant* to document proposals? ...for new wikis on Meta, for software upgrades on MediaWiki, or just put it all on BugZilla? And... I'm confused.
The MediaWiki manuals were originally on Meta, but are slowly being moved across to mediawiki.org .
(Sometimes a rewrite is needed, because Meta is GFDL but lots of mediawiki.org is public domain or equivalent ("copyright but may be used for any purpose" or equivalent).)
Just, what are the actual distinct purposes of the two wikis? What kind of information should always go on one and never the other? Thanks.
Meta is for "meta" administrative and "where are we going?" stuff pertaining to the operation of the Wikimedia wikis.
- d.
Virgil Ierubino wrote:
This is obvious in many cases - MediaWiki.org has the manual... but then Meta has the extensions? ...or they're being moved to the former. But the latter also has "manual"-like elements. Where are you actually *meant* to document proposals? ...for new wikis on Meta, for software upgrades on MediaWiki, or just put it all on BugZilla? And... I'm confused.
Just, what are the actual distinct purposes of the two wikis? What kind of information should always go on one and never the other? Thanks.
Meta is more the place to go if you'd like to help with official or proposed Wikimedia projects; mediawiki.org is for those who'd like to install the software for their own projects. That's how it's supposed to be, at least.
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