בתאריך יום ג׳, 22 ביוני 2021 ב-23:04 מאת Jon Robson < jrobson@wikimedia.org>:
Hi all
A few questions to provoke discussion/share knowledge better:
- Why does the train run Tue,Wed, Thur rather than Mon,Tue,Wed
- Why do we only have 2 group 1 Wikipedia's (Catalan and Hebrew)
It was my idea, kind of.
Earlier, all Wikipedias were on Thursday. Wikipedias are a bit different because they have some extensions other sites don't, such as Content Translation, which interests me, and some others. It happened a few times that a bad change was rolled out to Wikipedias on Thursday and it was difficult to roll it back until the next week. Moving all Wikipedias or just English a day earlier looked risky, so I proposed moving just two Wikipedias that are fairly active and have a community that is known to be friendly to early adoption and bug reporting. Everyone in these Wikipedias and in Ops thought it was a good idea and it was done.
I have a vague recollection that it helped catch a few bugs early on Wednesday and get them fixed before the Thursday train, although I don't remember the details.
This is not written in stone, and I don't think anyone in these two Wikipedias will strongly object to changing some things, although if anyone seriously wants to change it, it should be brought up on Village pumps there.